Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
“Big, fierce animals have a noble champion in William Stolzenburg.”—Edward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Wildlife journalist William Stolzenburg follows in the wake of nature’s topmost carnivores and finds chaos in their absence. His startling tour through the bizarre,...
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“Big, fierce animals have a noble champion in William Stolzenburg.”—Edward O. Wilson, Professor Emeritus, Harvard University Wildlife journalist William Stolzenburg follows in the wake of nature’s topmost carnivores and finds chaos in their absence. His startling tour through the bizarre, impoverished landscapes of pest and plague provides a world of reason to think again about meat-eating beasts so recently missing from the web of life. Includes a new afterword by the author.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781596916241 (1596916249)
ASIN: 1596916249
Publish date: June 23rd 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Intellectually most people realize that a healthy ecosystem needs its large predators, like grizzlies, wolves, killer whales and sharks in order to function properly but when we hear news stories about encounters between humans and said predators most of us probably have a tendency to leave intellec...
Very interesting ecology book focusing on the effects of big predators - their removal and re-introduction. There isn't much to say that hasn't been said in previous reviews. The writing style is personable and not overly technical, but doesn't dumb down the subject at all. Minus one star for fai...
I was a bit disappointed after finishing Where the Wild Things Were as I believed it would be more focused on today's issues and have more in the way of information for myself. While it may come packed with information for the laymen, I am well-versed in ecology, ecosystems, the predator/prey relati...
12 years ago
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