The Ghost With Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species (Used)

Fine used hardcover in dust jacket.  First Edition. Previous owner's name on title page. 

Naturalist Scott Weidensaul pursues stories of loss and recovery, of endurance against the odds, and of surprising resurrections.  The search takes Weidensaul to the rain forests of the Caribbean and Brazil in the pursuit of long-lost birds, to the rugged mountains of Tasmania for the striped, wolflike marsupial known as the thylacine, to cloning laboratories where scientists struggle to re-create long-extinct animals, and even to the moorlands and tidy farms of England on the trail of mysterious black panthers whose existence seems to depend on the faith of those looking for them.  This is a book of exploration and a survey of the frontiers of modern science and wildlife biology.  It is the story of our desire for a wilder, bigger, more complete world.