Sentinels: How Animals Warn Us of Disease

‘Dulaney has given us an elegant and urgent exploration of humanity’s interconnectedness with the natural world, which we ignore at our peril. A must-read.’ -- Sarah Krasnostein, multi-award-winning author ‘Compulsively readable, politically astute, and meticulously researched, Sentinels is a brilliant book about humans and animals; about viruses, vulnerability, and ecological violence in an age of climate catastrophe. It is a meditation on the great web of being and an urgent call to arms. The new environmental journalism is here, and Dulaney is its finest correspondent.’ -- Alecia Simmonds, author of Courting: An Intimate History of Love and the Law, winner of the 2024 Australian History Prize in the NSW Premier’s History Awards ‘Visceral, vivid, and propulsive, Michael Dulaney’s writing is impossible to put down. A staggering feat of investigative reporting, Sentinels pulses with heart while asking the urgent questions of our time. Dulaney plunges us into tiny worlds with enormous consequences, rendering a piercing portrait of the world as it is and an honest look at what lies ahead, while leaving the reader with something rarer still: hope. Armed with knowledge, perhaps we can finally face the long-overdue reckoning.’ -- Sheree Joseph, author of Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectations ‘Incisive, well written, and wide ranging. Dulaney wrangles the messy and complicated layers of disease emergence to illuminate the bigger stories beneath the spillovers. You’ll be leaping from page to page faster than a novel flu strain in an industrial farm.’ -- Tom Mustill, author of How to Speak Whale: A Voyage Into the Future of Animal Communication