Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals
暫譯: 堅韌的野獸：改變我們對動物思考的野生動物復甦故事
Preston, Christopher J.
- 出版商: MIT
- 出版日期: 2024-03-05
- 售價: $1,250
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $1,188
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 328
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 026254833X
- ISBN-13: 9780262548335
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商品描述
An inspiring look at wildlife species that are defying the odds and teaching important lessons about how to share a planet. First Honorable Mention, The Rachel Carson Environment Book Award
Winner of the 2024 High Plains Book Award, Non-Fiction Category
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Popular Science and Mathematics Category
Included in The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023, So Far" The news about wildlife is dire--more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there are also glimmers of hope and crucial lessons to be learned from animals that have defied global trends toward extinction: bears in Italy, bison in North America, whales in the Atlantic. These populations are back from the brink, some of them in numbers unimaginable in a century. How has this happened? What shifts in thinking did it demand? In crisp, transporting prose, Christopher Preston reveals the mysteries and challenges at the heart of these resurgences. Drawing on compelling personal stories from the researchers, Indigenous people, and activists who know the creatures best, Preston weaves together a gripping narrative of how some species are taking back vital, ecological roles. Each section of the book--farms, prairies, rivers, forests, oceans--offers a philosophical shift in how humans ought to think about animals, passionately advocating for the changes in attitude necessary for wildlife recovery. Tenacious Beasts is quintessential nature writing for the Anthropocene, touching on different facets of ecological restoration from Indigenous knowledge to rewilding practices. More important, perhaps, the book offers a road map--and a measure of hope--for a future in which humans and animals can once again coexist.
Winner of the 2024 High Plains Book Award, Non-Fiction Category
Finalist, 2024 PROSE Awards: Popular Science and Mathematics Category
Included in The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023, So Far" The news about wildlife is dire--more than 900 species have been wiped off the planet since industrialization. Against this bleak backdrop, however, there are also glimmers of hope and crucial lessons to be learned from animals that have defied global trends toward extinction: bears in Italy, bison in North America, whales in the Atlantic. These populations are back from the brink, some of them in numbers unimaginable in a century. How has this happened? What shifts in thinking did it demand? In crisp, transporting prose, Christopher Preston reveals the mysteries and challenges at the heart of these resurgences. Drawing on compelling personal stories from the researchers, Indigenous people, and activists who know the creatures best, Preston weaves together a gripping narrative of how some species are taking back vital, ecological roles. Each section of the book--farms, prairies, rivers, forests, oceans--offers a philosophical shift in how humans ought to think about animals, passionately advocating for the changes in attitude necessary for wildlife recovery. Tenacious Beasts is quintessential nature writing for the Anthropocene, touching on different facets of ecological restoration from Indigenous knowledge to rewilding practices. More important, perhaps, the book offers a road map--and a measure of hope--for a future in which humans and animals can once again coexist.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一個啟發人心的視角，探討那些挑戰困境的野生物種，並傳授如何共享這個星球的重要課題。
第一屆榮譽提名，瑞秋·卡森環境書獎2024年高原書獎非小說類別獲獎者
2024年PROSE獎決賽入圍者：流行科學與數學類別
入選《紐約客》2023年最佳書籍（截至目前） 有關野生動物的消息令人擔憂——自工業化以來，已有超過900個物種從地球上消失。然而，在這樣的陰霾背景下，仍然有希望的曙光和重要的教訓可以從那些抵抗全球滅絕趨勢的動物身上學到：意大利的熊、北美的野牛、大西洋的鯨魚。這些族群已經從邊緣回歸，其中一些的數量在一個世紀內達到難以想像的程度。這是如何發生的？這需要什麼樣的思維轉變？在清晰而引人入勝的文筆中，克里斯多福·普雷斯頓揭示了這些復甦背後的奧秘和挑戰。 普雷斯頓借助那些最了解這些生物的研究人員、原住民和活動家的引人入勝的個人故事，編織出一個扣人心弦的敘事，講述一些物種如何重新獲得重要的生態角色。書中的每一部分——農場、草原、河流、森林、海洋——都提供了一種哲學上的轉變，讓人類重新思考與動物的關係，熱情倡導為野生動物復甦所需的態度改變。 堅韌的野獸 是人類世的典範自然寫作，觸及從原住民知識到重野化實踐的生態修復不同面向。或許更重要的是，這本書提供了一個藍圖——以及一絲希望——為人類和動物能夠再次共存的未來。
作者簡介
Christopher Preston's essays have appeared in Atlantic, Smithsonian, Aeon, and on the BBC website. He teaches environmental philosophy at the University of Montana and lives in Missoula, MT.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
克里斯多福·普雷斯頓的文章曾發表於《大西洋》、《史密森尼》、《艾翁》以及BBC網站上。他在蒙大拿大學教授環境哲學，並居住在蒙大拿州的米蘇拉。
