An on line discussion of books that have been or are currently being read by members of the Audubon Naturalist Society Conservation Philosophy Reading Group. We choose books, old and new, that collectively constitute the intellectual underpinnings of conservation philosophy.
September 29, 2014 - The Condor's Shadow: The Loss and Recovery of Wildlife in America by David S. Wilcove
Kent Minichiello has this to say: This book is an updating of Peter Matthiessen’s Wildlife in Amercia which is a principal source for much of Wilcove’s book; because of this sourcing I recommend that you read Matthiessen before reading Wilcove. A further change from Matthiessen is that, as Wilcove points out, Matthiessen writes as a historian while Wilcove writes as an ecologist. I might add that Matthiessen is a National Book Award winning author with a prize-winning prose style in fiction as well as nonfiction. Although The Condor’s Shadow is well written (for a scientist), Wilcove is no Matthiessen or E.O. Wilson.
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Kent Minichiello has this to say:
This book is an updating of Peter Matthiessen’s Wildlife in Amercia which is a principal source for much of Wilcove’s book; because of this sourcing I recommend that you read Matthiessen before reading Wilcove. A further change from Matthiessen is that, as Wilcove points out, Matthiessen writes as a historian while Wilcove writes as an ecologist. I might add that Matthiessen is a National
Book Award winning author with a prize-winning prose style in fiction as well as nonfiction. Although The Condor’s Shadow is well written (for a scientist), Wilcove is no Matthiessen or E.O. Wilson.
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