Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds
Stories of Extinction
$48.24
- Hardcover
248 pages
- Release Date
31 August 2025
Summary
A moving and motivating collection of portraits of extinct species, revealing the profound implications of their disappearance.
This book presents thirty-one extinct species through personal portraits. The intimate approach not only highlights each species but explores the broader implications of losing a species forever. How do we honour such a loss? Can we grieve for species we never knew? These animals range from the well-known passenger pigeon, thylacine and great…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781836390459 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1836390459 |
| Author: | Barbara Allen |
| Publisher: | Reaktion Books |
| Imprint: | Reaktion Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 248 |
| Release Date: | 31 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 718g |
| Dimensions: | 31mm x 240mm x 220mm |
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Critics Review
“There is a clear cultural appetite for extinction stories… Allen’s book, arriving in this cultural moment, seems poised to satisfy that appetite and help us think more deeply about what extinction means.”
– “Integrative Comparative Biology Blog”“These are challenging stories, not just for witnessing the suffering of another species but for seeing the human species reflected back at us.”
– “EcoLit Books”“What would the last living passenger pigeon… have to say if he or she were alive today? Or the Tasmanian tiger? Or the Carolina parakeet? … This book is a fitting memorial to them.”
– “EcoLit Books, “The best environmental books we’ve read in 2025””“Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds: Stories of Extinction by Allen profiles the great auk, passenger pigeon, and Saint Helena earwig, among other extinct creatures, exploring how their disappearances affected their ecosystems and provide insight into humanity’s relationship with nature.”– “Publishers Weekly (Spring 2025 Fiction & Nonfiction Preview: Science)”“Allen’s Lost Animals, Disappearing Worlds is an inventive and beautiful hymn to what we have lost, all the while shining an urgent light of hope for the future.”–Leah Kaminsky, author of “We’re All Going to Die” and coeditor of “Animals Make Us Human”About The Author
Barbara Allen
Barbara Allen is a minister in the Uniting Church in Australia. Her books include Pigeon (2009), Animals in Religion (2016) and Pelican (2019), all published by Reaktion Books.
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