No Turning Back: The Life and Death of Animal Species

Ellis, a popular American writer and painter on marine natural history, provides a necessarily selective account of how species have gone and are going extinct during the long life of his home planet, both one-by-one and in the great orgies called mass extinctions. He also looks at species today that are either on or have been pulled back from the brink. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR