Carnivorous Nights: On The Trail Of The Tasmanian Tiger [Lingua Inglese] - Rilegato

Advance Praise for Carnivorous Nights

"The quixotic quest at the heart of Carnivorous Nights is more than just endearing and engrossing, it's inspiring."
-- Jonathan Safran Foer

“Sit down in a comfortable chair and get totally absorbed, as I did, with companions every bit as charming and more informative than André (as in My Dinner With).”
–Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, author of The Pig Who Sang to the Moon and Dogs Never Lie About Love

“Alexis Rockman and the thylacine are two of the most fascinating critters that have ever prowled the woods of Tasmania or the galleries and basketball courts of New York. Put them together, and you’re off on a roaring adventure.”
–David Quammen, author of The Song of the Dodo

“I was truly sorry to finish this book. During the days I was reading it, as I went about my necessary work, I found myself longing to return to that beautifully observed, excitingly reported, laugh-out-loud funny and at the same time heartbreakingly endangered world of the thylacine, pademelon, potoroo and, perhaps my favorite, Tasmanian Devil, and to the young adventurers whose travels and travails the book describes. This book will surely become a classic of wild-life adventure and travel writing.”
–Marie Winn, author of Red-Tails in Love

MARGARET MITTELBACH and MICHAEL CREWDSON regularly join forces for The New York Times and other publications, employing their dry wit to reveal nature in the strangest of places. Their previous book, Wild New York, uncovered the unsung natural wonders of the city that never sleeps. They give frequent talks and lectures on wildlife, and live in Brooklyn.

Alexis Rockman’s artwork examines the history of how nature is portrayed, and is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Guggenheim Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and London’s Saatchi Collection. He has also contributed artwork to several books, including Future Evolution, by Peter Ward, a prediction of the future of the global ecosystem. He lives and works in New York and has traveled around the world experiencing the wild firsthand.