The writing blends explanations of her treks to remote areas with interviews of scientists, researchers, and guides, without advocating a position, in pursuit of objectivity. The target audience is the general reader, and scientific descriptions are rendered in understandable prose. The author received the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for the book in 2015. She also describes specific species extinguished by humans, as well as the ecologies surrounding prehistoric and near-present extinction events. In the book, Kolbert chronicles previous mass extinction events, and compares them to the accelerated, widespread extinctions during our present time. The book argues that the Earth is in the midst of a modern, man-made, sixth extinction. The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History is a 2014 non-fiction book written by Elizabeth Kolbert and published by Henry Holt and Company.
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