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Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Katherine Rundell
4.21 AVERAGE
561 reviews for:
Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures
Katherine Rundell
4.21 AVERAGE
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The audiobook is only 3 hours and change but man, 3 hours well-spent. Chock-full of facts, well-selected and perfectly presented, each chapter a bite-size delight and love letter to animals as a whole. Despite my love for animals generally (I grew up obsessively reading nonfiction books about animals with a new hyperfixation every month, and as an adult my fiancé and I go to the zoo more often than I'd like to admit), I walked away having learned so many new facts.
This book might not shake your world, but whether you're looking for a beach read or an audiobook that the (teen-and-up) family can enjoy on a road trip, you really can't beat this.
This book might not shake your world, but whether you're looking for a beach read or an audiobook that the (teen-and-up) family can enjoy on a road trip, you really can't beat this.
4.5
I took off half a star because somehow, this book had too many and also not enough commas, semicolons, and colons. Some things read a little off to me.
I’m rounding up to five stars because the stories and lessons were so fascinating and memorable.
I took off half a star because somehow, this book had too many and also not enough commas, semicolons, and colons. Some things read a little off to me.
I’m rounding up to five stars because the stories and lessons were so fascinating and memorable.
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Whenever we drive up to Flagstaff, Jesse and I pick a short audiobook. (We try to pick books G would also be interested in, but she's way more interested in watching her favorite scenes from her favorite movies, current viewing includes Pitch Perfect 1-3 and the Miles Morales movies, previously it was Hamilton...every day, all day.) Jesse drives and I am an excellent passenger that definitely stays awake the entire drive. Like with previous trips, I read along with the ebook while we listen.
Y'all. The audiobook is based on the British text, the ebook was an updated American version. There were some very interesting changes, like the obvious change from metric to whatever we use in the United States. The audiobook inclued nothing about "Noah's Ark" in the intro, but the text definitely did ("We are Noah's Ark in reverse..."). Then were were entire paragraphs removed about wolves in Scotland with added information about wolves in the USA. The Author's Note includes discussion of Keynes that the audiobook did not include in a note. Perhaps because of some page count restriction? Of course, I knew this was a possibility (it also happened with A Dictionary of Scoundrels), but I forgot. It made for a fun experience to share what was added with Jesse as I spotted the differences.
It's an interesting book about interesting animals that are (or were) on the brink of extinction thanks to the human inability to see a problem until it's too late (or to ignore the problem until all the books are burned, see Sibylline Books). Rundell discusses elephants, golden moles, swifts, Greenland sharks, wombats, bears, wolves, and more.
Y'all. The audiobook is based on the British text, the ebook was an updated American version. There were some very interesting changes, like the obvious change from metric to whatever we use in the United States. The audiobook inclued nothing about "Noah's Ark" in the intro, but the text definitely did ("We are Noah's Ark in reverse..."). Then were were entire paragraphs removed about wolves in Scotland with added information about wolves in the USA. The Author's Note includes discussion of Keynes that the audiobook did not include in a note. Perhaps because of some page count restriction? Of course, I knew this was a possibility (it also happened with A Dictionary of Scoundrels), but I forgot. It made for a fun experience to share what was added with Jesse as I spotted the differences.
It's an interesting book about interesting animals that are (or were) on the brink of extinction thanks to the human inability to see a problem until it's too late (or to ignore the problem until all the books are burned, see Sibylline Books). Rundell discusses elephants, golden moles, swifts, Greenland sharks, wombats, bears, wolves, and more.
This book is broken into little chapters about different animals that have or are facing extinction. Rundell does a great job of tying in facts about the animals along with stories throughout humankind. She addressed a lot of the preconceived notions we have about the animal- my favorite being the spider. 5/5 because this book deserves for awareness and everyone should read it! I will be using this for book club.