Charle Bergman, a professor of English and an active environmentalist, brings the same passion, poetry, and profundity to the issue of endangered wildlife as does Barry Lopez. In chapters on the gray wolf, the California condor, the Florida panther, the Puerto Rican parrot, and the trumpeter swan, the author makes it clear that to remain alienated from these creatures is to be cut off from aspects of ourselves which make us most human.
Bergman spotlights those working to save animals from extinction. And best of all, he reveals the ecological vision that is necessary to give the Earth community a new lease on life.
