1. Walking with Ōkami, the Large-Mouthed Pure God

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction: Telling Extinction Stories 1
5. 1. Walking with Ōkami, the Large-Mouthed Pure God 19
6. 2. Saving the Golden Lion Tamarin 49
7. 3. Extinction in a Distant Land: The Question of Elliot’s Bird of Paradise 89
8. 4. Monk Seals at the Edge: Blessings in a Time of Peril 117
9. 5. Encountering Leatherbacks in Multispecies Knots of Time 149
10. 6. Spectral Crows in Hawai’i: Conservation and the Work of Inheritance 187
11. Afterword: It Is an Entire World that Has Disappeared 217
12. Contributors 223
13. Index 227