Interview: Terry Glavin, On the Line with Joseph Planta (thecommentary.ca)

Terry Glavin

Thursday, 13 April 2006

Acclaimed journalist and conservationist Terry Glavin talked with Joseph Planta about his new book Waiting for the Macaws: And Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions (Viking, 2006), a fascinating and well-written book on his travels around the world encountering peoples attitudes toward plant and animal species, as well as languages that are seemingly fading away.

Waiting for the Macaws: And Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions by Terry Glavin. (Viking, 2006)

Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Waiting for the Macaws

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Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:

As plant and animal species disappear, we are living through what ecologists are calling, the "Sixth Great Extinction." To paint a picture of where we're headed, writer and conservationist Terry Glavin takes readers from a macaw roost in Costa Rica, to a small village in Ireland, to Kew, and to the Himalayas in his new book, Waiting for the Macaws: And Other Stories from the Age of Extinctions ($35.00 CDN, published by Viking). Terry Glavin's previous book, This Ragged Place was a finalist for the Governor General's Prize in 1996. Please welcome to Planta: On the Line, Terry Glavin; Good morning, Mr. Glavin.

Weblinks:

Terry Glavin's Blog: http://transmontanus.blogspot.com