{"product_id":"9780374301965","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\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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125625274608,"sku":"9780374301965","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374301965_p0.jpg?v=1763690699","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374301965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}