Waiting for the Macaws Paperback by Terry Glavin

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2007-01-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 336 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143016571
• Item Weight: 285.77 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

“Waiting for the Macaws is a haunting reminder of the scale and breadth of what can only be described as a catastrophe of the human spirit and imagination.”—Wade Davis, author of Light at the Edge of the World and Explorer-in-Residence, National Geographic Society

Waiting for the Macaws is a haunting and beautifully written account of the age in which we live. Journeying around the world, Terry Glavin argues that all extinctions are related and that the language of environmentalism is inadequate to describing this great unravelling.

But Glavin discovers that there is hope, finding it in the most unlikely places—a macaw roost in Costa Rica, a Small village in Ireland, a community of Norse whalers on the Lofoten Islands in the North Atlantic, the vault beneath the Royal botanical Garden at Kew, and the throne room of the Angh of Longwa in the Patkai Range of the eastern Himalayas.

About the Author

Terry Glavin is a renowned writer and conservationist. His book The Last Great Sea: A Voyage Through the Human and Natural History of the North Pacific Ocean won the Hubert Evans Prize, and This Ragged Place: Travels Across the Landscape was a Governor General’s Award finalist. A frequent contributor to newspapers and magazines, Glavin is the recipient of numerous regional and national journalism awards. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia’s fine arts department, and he serves as an adviser to the Sierra Club of Canada’s B.C. chapter. He lives on Mayne Island, in B.C.’s southern Gulf Islands.