| Description |
351 pages ; 24 cm |
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Includes index. |
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"All the chapters in this book are based on articles originally published in National Geographic magazine"--Page 333. |
| Contents |
Foreword: the heart is a muscle -- The megatransect -- Part I: The long follow (Republic of the Congo) -- Part II: the green abyss (Republic of the Congo) -- Part III: The end of the line (Gabon) -- A country to discover: one signature, 13 new parks (Gabon) -- Goualougo and friends: a walk in the deep forest with Jane Goodall (Republic of the Congo) -- The megaflyover: Mike Fay goes airborne across Africa (Niger) -- The spirit of the wild: Africa has saved what other continents have lost (Pan-Africa) -- Family ties: The private lives of Samburu elephants (Kenya) -- The long way home: salmon, politics, and sustenance on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula (Kamchatka, Russia) -- Let it be: the splendid isolation of Kronotsky Nature Reserve (Kamchatka, Russia) -- The Left Bank ape: What makes bonobos different (Democratic Republic of the Congo) -- The short happy life of a Serengeti lion: C-Boy against the odds (Tanzania) -- Tooth and claw: for people and lions, living together is the hard part (Tanzania) -- Elegy for a lion: the death of C-Boy (Tanzania) -- Desperate primates: chimps and people on a ragged landscape (Uganda) -- The meaning of north: pristine seas and lonely islands (Franz Josef Land, Russia) -- Reservoir of terror: Ebola virus doesn't disappear, it just hides (Ivory Coast) -- Saving the Okavango: a great wetland needs water (Angola and Botswana) -- People's park: conservation and human rights in Gorongosa (Mozambique) -- Gift of the wild: the legacy of Doug Tompkins and Kristine McDivitt Tompkins (Chile and Argentina) -- Boots on the Ground: a private organization undertakes to protect and run African peaks (Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Benin) -- Afterword: still beating. |
| Summary |
"In this essay collection, David Quammen journeys to places where civilization meets raw nature"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Wilderness areas.
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Nature conservation.
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Natural history.
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| Genre |
Essays.
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| Added Title |
Dispatches from landscapes of wonder, peril, and hope |
| ISBN |
9781426222078 (hardcover) |
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1426222076 (hardcover) |
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