Geography & the Environment
As Dead as a Dodo
by Shen Fuyu
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Winner of the “China’s Most Beautiful Book Prize” in 2014. Dead As a Dodo tells the stories of 30 species which have already died out or are currently threatened with extinction.
The last dodo died in 1681 by gunshot. Mauritius, the last passenger pigeon on earth died in 1914 in the United States in her cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. The animals described in this book are gone, we are still here. After closing the book, everyone will ask: what kind of pain has our behavior brought to the earth? Have we overdrawn our future for the sake of temporary benefits?A lonely human being is a sad human being and every time we kill an animal, we take another step toward global loneliness.
Each story in the book is accompanied by beautiful and touching illustrations from the hands of the painter Wei Eternity.
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Winner of the "Bing Xin Children's Book Award" and the "Jinling Literature Award".
Author Biography
Shen Fuyu, was born in 1970 in Taixing, Jiangsu. He is a well-known journalist and President of Jinling Reportage Society, a teacher at Southeast University Humanities College, vice chairman of Nanjing Writers Association, and a columnist for the Nanjing Daily.
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- Publisher Hunan People's Publishing House Co., Ltd.
- Publication Date May 2014
- Orginal LanguageChinese simplified
- ISBN/Identifier 9787543899117
- Publication Country or regionChina
- FormatHardback
- Primary Price 45 CNY
- Pages139
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Original Language Title逝者如渡渡shi'zhe'ru'du'du
- Original Language Authors申赋渔shen'fu'yu
