**Shortlisted for the Richard Jefferies award for nature writing.In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.'Timely, elegiac'** - The Daily Mail'Superb storytelling . . . an exhilarating and vital book' - Charles Foster, author of Cry of the WildLost Wonders is a series of fascinating encount...

**Read by the author, Tom Lathan.In Lost Wonders author and journalist Tom Lathan tells the powerful stories of ten species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.**Many scientists believe that we are currently living through the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, with species disappearing at a rate not seen for tens of millions of years – a trend that will only accelerate as climate change and other pres...

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