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Itâs no secret we live in an age of extinction: our daily newsfeeds and disappearing wildlife make that abundantly clear. But what does extinction really mean for humanity? Naturalist and poet Neil Griffin seeks to answer that question.
The result is a globe-spanning, personal history of extinction: a grand tour of the dead, the nearly dead, andâagainst all oddsâthe still living. Griffin catches crocodiles in Belize, tracks bats on the Western plains, meets jaguars in Honduras, and, in Kenya, comes face to face with the northern white rhinoceros, the rarest mammal on Earth. Along the way, he connects our current moment to Earthâs deep history, exploring how mass extinctions occur and irreversibly shape life on our planet.
Written with curiosity, compassion, and a surprising humour, Endings is an eye-opening journey through extinctionâfrom the fossil record to the field biologistâs notebook, from myth to memory. In bearing witness to what weâve lost, Griffin discovers something unexpected: that even in an age of endings, wonder and hope remain defiantly alive.
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Neil Griffin is a writer and naturalist from Calgary, Alberta. Raised on the prairies and trained as a wildlife biologist, for over a decade he tracked the disappearing and the dead of our world, from Canadaâs boreal forests to the Amazon basin, from Ethiopiaâs Afar desert to the Virunga Mountains of Rwanda, before giving up the glitz and glamour of tropical fieldwork for the financial stability of freelance writing. He holds an MFA from the University of Victoria, where he is an instructor in the Department of Writing.
