| NOAH'S CHOICE The Future of Endangered Species Charles C. Mann Mark L. Plummer New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-679-42002-6 | ||||
| ISBN 0-679-42002-9 | 302pp. | HC | $24.00 | |
| Page 29: | "It happens when the last individual in a 'kinds of' vanishes." |
| Number error: S/B " 'kind of' ". |
| Page 39: | "Nobody is sure how many species we have already located, let alone the number that remain to be found." |
| Number error: S/B "that remains". Also tautological: If species remain to be found, they definitely will not be countable. |
| Page 50: | "As of October 1994, it included 654 species and subspecies of plant, 364 invertebrates, 103 birds, 63 mammals, 33 fishes, and 20 reptiles and amphibians—1,237 creatures in all." |
| Wording: S/B "1,237 kinds of creatures". |
| Page 117: | "Legs bent widdershins, straightened, bent again." |
| Wording: "widdershins" is an antiquated term for counterclockwise rotation. |
| Page 176: | "On March 13, 1993, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt stood among the ashe junipers and oaks of the Austin Hill Country..." |
| I thought this was a typo for "the ashes, junipers and oaks." Incorrect: "ashe juniper" is a local tree (see page 190.) |
| Page 215: | "Congresswoman Leonor Sullivan, Democrat of Missouri, the chair of the Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, summed up..." |
| I assumed this should be "Leonora Sullivan." I was wrong. The late congresswoman was Leonor Kretzer Sullivan (1902-1998). |
| Page 223: | "These principles could be embodied in many ways by many mechanisms; the proverb about skinning and cats applies. But they should not be ignored. The present system does that and has foundered as a result." |
| Wording: S/B "ignores them". |
| Page 226: | "These maps are then placed atop maps of landownership to learn who owns what and what type of community is most threatened." |
| Missing space: S/B "land ownership". |
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