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A carefully researched and deeply empathetic portrayal of the battle to save Australia's precious wildlife as we cook our planet. Fascinating and essential. --Gaia Vince, author of Adventures in the Anthropocene Pickrell tells a series of deep and compelling stories of resilience and recovery, finding hope amid the ashes of the most disastrous bushfires in modern history. Through detailed research and vivid storytelling, he puts a face on the otherwise impossible-to-comprehend abstraction of three billion animal deaths. In each tale of these plants and animals' fight to survive, he also provides a map for humanity in our own endeavor to learn to live with an increasingly fiery planet. --Michael Kodas, author of Megafire and High Crimes The story of Australia's devastating holocaust and how we must stop it happening again. It's up to us. --Robyn Williams, host of Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Science Show and Ockham's Razor Powerful and compelling, Flames of Extinction should be read by all who cherish life on Earth. --Professor Chris Dickman, University of Sydney

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John Pickrell is an award-winning journalist, the author of Flying Dinosaurs and Weird Dinosaurs, and the former editor of Australian Geographic magazine. Currently the Asia-Pacific Bureau Chief for Nature, he has worked in London, Washington, DC, and Sydney for publications including New Scientist, Science, Science News and Cosmos, and his articles also appear in Nature, National Geographic, Scientific American, Focus, BBC Future, The Guardian and the ABC. John has been a finalist in the Australian Museum's Eureka Prizes three times, won an Earth Journalism Award and has featured repeatedly in The Best Australian Science Writing anthology, which he edited in 2018. He studied biology at Imperial College in the United Kingdom and has a Master of Science in taxonomy and biodiversity from the Natural History Museum, London.

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