Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She is the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change. She lives in Williamstown, Massachusetts, with her husband and children.
A major book about the future of the world, blending intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful 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 life on earth suddenly and dramatically contracted. Scientists around the world are currently monitoring the sixth extinction, predicted to be the most devastating extinction event since the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. This time around, the cataclysm is us. In The Sixth Extinction, two-time winner of the National Magazine Award and New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert draws on the work of scores of researchers in half a dozen disciplines, accompanying many of them into the field: geologists who study deep ocean cores, botanists who follow the tree line as it climbs up the Andes, marine biologists who dive off the Great Barrier Reef. She introduces us to a dozen species, some already gone, others facing extinction, including the Panamian golden frog, staghorn coral, the great auk, and the Sumatran rhino. Through these stories, Kolbert provides a moving account of the disappearances occurring all around us and traces the evolution of extinction as concept, from its first articulation by Georges Cuvier in revolutionary Paris up through the present day. The sixth extinction is likely to be mankind's most lasting legacy; as Kolbert observes, it compels us to rethink the fundamental question of what it means to be human.
开卷之前,我已经做好了沉重的心理准备,然而当真像映入眼帘时,还是被深深地刺痛了。掩卷之时,对我们还活在这个古老的时空中,心存感激。 很多人觉得,大灭绝离我们很远很远,远到根本无需去担心。他们总会说大灭绝是杞人忧天,却从来不摆实例证明自己的观点。没有数据与事实...
评分 评分 评分 评分对于这本书的首要感受,就是这个书名和封面让人完全提不起兴趣看……但是读了之后真的手不释卷啊。 作为一本科普书,这本写的可谓出彩,获得普利策奖当之无愧。 首先作者的文笔真的很优美,无论是描述自然环境,写历史,还是各种反思,都有一种美感。而且虽然从内容来看,作者...
好看的!关键是虽然有一些专业词语需要略查,总体语言相当plain,也无障碍顺畅读下来,第一次读完一本非小说原版书。。。可能也是主题我比较感兴趣
评分文风干净利落,适量幽默,不抖机灵,hin不错的nonfiction
评分文笔很好,在介绍科学理论时简化得恰当好处,能让读者看懂又保留了一定的深度。通常对这类主题并没有什么兴趣,不过想到文字背后的作者如何为了这本书的写作而跑遍世界各地和学者们一起穿雨林钻山洞,还感觉挺奇妙的。
评分人无法征服自然,因为人属于自然。。就像桃谷六仙打趣说的,令狐冲是我们兄弟,令狐冲就是桃谷六仙,桃谷六仙就是令狐冲,这世上哪有自己打败自己的是呢。。
评分201409,和The Box一样都是记者出身的作家积累了大量资料后写的纪实类的书。大量生物学生词,不停查字典。五分之一的书是参考资料。
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