Lost Fish(ISBN=)

　　With more than two hundred richly colored, painstakingly
detailed antique illustrations, Lost Fish offers a chance to
meditate on the dazzling beauty of marine life before it is too
late. Culled from rare eighteenth- century scientific volumes,
these stunning prints testify to the age?s curiosity about the
natural world, which spurred legendary writers to expound on the
beauty of creation and etymologists like Linnaeus, Buffon, and his
successor, the Comte de Lac?p?de, to catalogue the species around
them. Today, only the very deepest crevasses of the ocean elude us.
But many of these species so meticulously enumerated by Lac?p?de
are lost forever, or pushed to the brink of extinction, put at risk
by the planet?s changing climate. Acclaimed environmental reporter
Elizabeth Kolbert provides an introduction that elucidates the
perils facing the ocean today?a fate inextricably linked with our
own. ILLUSTRATIONS 200 illustrations

　　Elizabeth Kolbert is a staff reporter at The New Yorker and
the author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and
Climate Change (Bloomsbury, 2006). She is a recipient of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science s magazine
writing award.