Scott Leslie: 100 Under 100: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Living Things [2015] paperback CUSTO an ode to stories and

an ode to stories and storytelling itself

Like a warm letter from a wise friend or big sister

They escape together

he amassed hundreds of items - often gifts from its greatest and most controversial figures

and so sets out on an extraordinary journey in search of his home

Scott Leslie: 100 Under 100: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Living Things [2015] paperback CUSTO an ode to stories andScientists estimate that the total biodiversity on Earth is between 10 million and 100 million species. Of these, just over 1. 6 million and counting have actually been catalogued and described. One percent, or 16,306, of those species are threatened with extinction, about one fifth of them critically. Of this group, some have vanishingly small populations in the double or single digits. A few species, including the Pinta Island giant tortoise and the