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The lost and left behind stories from the age of extinctions
Ecologists are calling the age we live in the Sixth Great Extinction. The world is losing more than animal and plant species. We are also losing the vast human legacy of languages, and with it ways of living, seeing and knowing. Glavin sets off in pursuit of the very things we're losing? a distinct species every ten minutes, a unique vegetable variety every six hours, an entire language every two weeks. Along the way he encounters some of the world's wonderful, rare things: a mysterious Sino-Tibetan song-language, a Malayan tiger (the last of its kind) and a strange tomato ...
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