{"product_id":"the-race-to-save-the-lord-god-bird-9781250073716","title":"The Race to Save the Lord God Bird","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe tragedy of extinction is explained through the dramatic story of a legendary bird, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker, and of those who tried to possess it, paint it, shoot it, sell it, and, in a last-ditch effort, save it. A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. \"Doc\" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sibley Guide to Birds\u003c\/i\u003e calls \"the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Race to Save the Lord God Bird\u003c\/i\u003e is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis new edition of the author's award-winning history features a new chapter about the endlessly debated 2004 Arkansas \"rediscovery\" of the ivory-billed woodpecker that made headlines around the world, as well as an expanded introduction and more than a dozen new images.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePhillip Hoose\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning author of books, essays, stories, songs and articles. Although he first wrote for adults, he turned his attention to children and young adults in part to keep up with his own daughters. His book \u003ci\u003eClaudette Colvin\u003c\/i\u003e won a National Book Award and was dubbed a \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2009. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eHey, Little Ant\u003c\/i\u003e, co-authored by his daughter, Hannah, \u003ci\u003eIt's Our World, Too!\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWe Were There, Too!\u003c\/i\u003e, a National Book Award finalist. He has received a Jane Addams Children's Book Award, a Christopher Award, and a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, among numerous honors. He was born in South Bend, Indiana, and grew up in the towns of South Bend, Angola, and Speedway, Indiana. He was educated at Indiana University and the Yale School of Forestry. He lives in Portland, Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Square Fish","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544338534674,"sku":"9781250073716","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_971acdea-9c43-4736-b806-4838b04a0734.jpg?v=1731526686","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-race-to-save-the-lord-god-bird-9781250073716","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}