A Gap in Nature:
Discovering the World’s Extinct Animals
Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten
Ever wonder what a dodo looked like? Or a passenger pigeon? Or the gigantic Steller’s sea cow, exterminated within 27 years of its discovery? All of them have long since passed into evolutionary oblivion, but now a new book—A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World’s Extinct Animals, by Tim Flannery and Peter Schouten (Atlantic Monthly, $34.95)—restores a face to these and dozens of other lost species. Lush and painstaking illustrations bring these legendary animals back to life as the accompanying text outlines their often precipitous demise.
— Louis Bayard
