THE RACE TO SAVE THE LORD GOD BIRD (THE BOSTON GLOBE-HORN BOOK AWARD) by Hoose, Phillip - 2004

Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Very Good in Good+ dust jacket. 2004. Hardcover. 0374361738 . A few bent corners. DJ shows slight wear. No markings at all. Library sticker on front of DJ. Otherwise, like new. ; 1.1 x 9.6 x 8.9 Inches; 208 pages; <div>The tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. "Doc" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it.<br> <br>All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of <i>The Sibley Guide to Birds</i> calls "the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker."<br></div> .