Vanishing Treasures · A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK FROM BOSTON GLOBE, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, MOREFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author Katherine Rundell comes a rare and magical book (Bill Bryson) reckoning with the vanishing wonders of our natural world "Extraordinary...For anyone whose capacity for wonder could use a jumpstart, Rundell's essays are essential reading."Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air "This celebration of seahorses, lemurs, and others doubles as a wake-up call: look around and protect what you love. Boston GlobeThe world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildestimaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world's most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction.Consider the seahorse: couples mate for life and meet each morning for...