The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

                               

by Elizabeth Kolbert  

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
From the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe, a powerful and important work about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a compelling account of the mass extinction unfolding before our eyes.

Over the last half a billion years, there have been five mass extinctions, when the diversity of ...more

 

Hardcover,             319 pages

Published                February 11th 2014 by Henry Holt and Co. (Georg von Holtzbrinck) (first published February 2014)

original title              The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

ISBN                      0805092994 (ISBN13: 9780805092998)

edition language       English

url                            http://us.macmillan.com/thesixthextinction-1/ElizabethKolbert

literary awards

Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (2015), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2015), Kirkus Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (Finalist) (2014), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Nonfiction (2014)