No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations.(Book review)

Journal of Environmental Education | September 22, 2008| | Copyright

No Way Home: The Decline of the World's Great Animal Migrations, by David S. Wilcove. 2007. Washington, DC: Island Press. 240 pages. Hardcover. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-55963-985-9.

Several years ago, while driving through western Nebraska in April for my grandmother's funeral (she was nearing her 105th birthday), I slowly realized that the dark clouds rising from the farmlands were not smoke but flocks of sandhill cranes, about which I had only read. The awe-inspiring age-old migration of the cranes and the passing of my grandmother will forever be connected for me. A ...

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