Description:
Winner of the Sierra Club's 2021 Rachel Carson Award
One of Chicago Tribune's Ten Best Books of 2021
Named a Top Ten Best Science Book of 2021 by Booklist and Smithsonian Magazine
"At once thoughtful and thought-provoking," Beloved Beasts tells the story of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people who built it, making "a crucial addition to the literature of our troubled time" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction).
Brief description: Michelle Nijhuis is a project editor at the Atlantic, a contributing editor at High Country News, and an award-winning reporter whose work has been published in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine. She is coeditor of The Science Writers' Handbook and lives in White Salmon, Washington.
Review Quotes: A comprehensive history of the conservation movement--and a warning that we are not doing enough to prevent further animal mass extinction.-- "USA Today"