Rescuing the Planet: Protecting Half the Land to Heal the Earth

The award-winning author of The Experience of Place delivers an "upbeat and engaging account of the remarkable progress being made to preserve vast wild spaces for animals to roam" (The Wall Street Journal)-and an urgent call to protect 50 percent of the earth's land by 2050-thereby saving millions of its species.

Beginning in the vast North American Boreal Forest that stretches through Canada, and roving across the continent, from the Northern Sierra to Alabama's Paint Rock Forest, from th...