Published by the Folio Society, London, 2019.
 
First Folio Edition.
 
The book is in like new condition, bound in soft-touch laminated paper printed and blocked in iridescent foil with a design by Jamie Keenan, with 24 pages of colour plates and 47 integrated black & white illustrations. The green, recycled paper slipcase is also in like new condition. The foreword is by Bill McKibben.
 
Edward O. Wilson, one of the world's greatest naturalists, takes us on a tour through time, from life's earliest beginnings to the current crisis of human-driven extinction. He leads us through the natural world, explaining how species evolve, adapt and colonise to create the astonishing variety of plants and creatures we see around us. Wilson writes with passion about the beauty and science of nature from flycatchers to great white sharks, from rainforests to deep ocean trenches and shows us why the threat to biodiversity today is beyond the scope of anything we have known before.
 
The book also identifies the crisis in our countless ecosystems around the globe including coral reefs, grasslands, polar icecaps and other habitats  and he presents a brilliant strategy for halting the extinction of the world's species.