The Re-Origin of Species:
a second chance for extinct animals
Translated by Fiona Graham
Overview
A Telegraph Book of the Year.
What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like today’s birds? Do aurochs moo like cows? You may soon find out.
From the Siberian permafrost to balmy California, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are both fossils and cutting-edge genetic technologies. Some of these scientists are driven by sheer curiosity; others view the lost species as a powerful weapon in the fight to save rapidly disappearing ecosystems.
Science journalist Torill Kornfeldt travelled the world to meet the men and women working to bring extinct animals back from the dead. Along the way, she saw a mammoth that has been frozen for 20,000 years, and visited the places where these furry giants once walked. It seems certain that they and other lost species will walk the earth again, but what world will that give us? And is any of this a good idea?
Details
- Format
- Size
- Extent
- ISBN
- RRP
- Pub date
- Other rights
- Paperback
- 234mm x 153mm
- 256 pages
- 9781911617228
- GBP£14.99
- 12 July 2018
- NA Consortium
Audio [UK & Cw excluding Can] Audible
Indian Subcontinent Westland
Praise
‘[T]his excellent book, written with a deceptively light touch (in Fiona Graham’s translation) … raises a number of deep questions and paradoxes about our relationship with nature.’
‘It’s a beautifully written and perceptive book, that also poses sharp questions about environmental nostalgia and the true value of species.’
About the Author
Translator
Fiona Graham is a British literary translator, editor, and reviewer who has lived in Kenya, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Nicaragua, and Belgium. Her recent translations include Elisabeth Åsbrink’s 1947: when now begins, an English PEN award-winner longlisted for the Warwick Women in Translation Prize and the JQ Wingate Prize, and Torill Kornfeldt’s The Unnatural Selection of Our Species.
