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A powerful saga that sweeps through two hundred years of history, it introduces artists like John James Audubon, bird collectors like William Brewster, and finally a new breed of scientist in Cornell's Arthur A. \"Doc\" Allen and his young ornithology student, James Tanner, whose quest to save the Ivory-bill culminates in one of the first great conservation showdowns in U.S. history, an early round in what is now a worldwide effort to save species. As hope for the Ivory-bill fades in the United States, the bird is last spotted in Cuba in 1987, and Cuban scientists join in the race to save it. All this, plus Mr. Hoose's wonderful story-telling skills, comes together to give us what David Allen Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds calls \"the most thorough and readable account to date of the personalities, fashions, economics, and politics that combined to bring about the demise of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker.\" The Race to Save the Lord God Bird is the winner of the 2005 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Nonfiction and the 2005 Bank Street - Flora Stieglitz Award. This new edition of the author's award-winning history features a new chapter about the endlessly debated 2004 Arkansas \"rediscovery\" of the ivory-billed woodpecker that made headlines around the world, as well as an expanded introduction and more than a dozen new images.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9781250073716","publication_date":"20160216","publisher":"Square Fish","slug":"the-race-to-save-the-lord-god-bird","subtitle":"","title":"The Race to Save the Lord God Bird"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"YAN003020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Birds","score":0.7783,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"SCI070040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Bird Biology","score":0.7626,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN050090","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Ecosystems & Environmental Science for Teens","score":0.7061,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"YAN003020","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Birds","score":0.7783,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"SCI070040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Bird Biology","score":0.7626,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"YAN050090","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Ecosystems & Environmental Science for Teens","score":0.7061,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"YAN003020","confidence_band":"high","label":"Birds","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"YAN050080","confidence_band":"high","label":"Conservation & Environment for Teens","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"YAN050090","confidence_band":"high","label":"Ecosystems & Environmental Science for Teens","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Birds","score":0.7783,"slug":"birds"},{"label":"Bird Biology","score":0.7626,"slug":"bird-biology"},{"label":"Ecosystems & Environmental Science for Teens","score":0.7061,"slug":"ecosystems-environmental-science-for-teens"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in bird extinction and conservation history.","Readers drawn to a two-century history of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker."],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["DK","D.K. 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