Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century

Shortlisted for the 2024 Richard Jefferies Award for nature writing.

In Lost Wonders Tom Lathan tells ten powerful stories of species that have lived, died out and been declared extinct since the turn of the twenty-first century.

'Timely, elegiac' Daily Mail
'Superb storytelling . . . an exhilarating and vital book' - Charles Foster, author of Cry of the Wild
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Many scientists believe that we are currently living through the Earth’s sixth mass extinction, with species disappearing at a ra...