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Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations

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ISBN-10: 1597261521

ISBN-13: 9781597261524

Edition: 2nd 2005

Authors: Eric Dinerstein

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In 1972, Eric Dinerstein was in film school at Northwestern University, with few thoughts of nature, let alone tiger-filled jungles at the base of the Himalayas or the antelope-studded Serengeti plain. Yet thanks to some inspiring teachers and the squawk of a little green heron that awakened him to nature's fundamental wonders, Dinerstein would ultimately become a leading conservation biologist, traveling to these and other remote corners of the world to protect creatures ranging from the striking snow leopard to the homely wrinkle-faced bat. Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations takes readers on Dinerstein's unlikely journey to conservation's frontiers, from early research in…    
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Book details

List price: $33.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Island Press
Publication date: 4/13/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Eric Dinerstein is chief scientist and vice president for science at the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C. In addition to being active in large-mammal conservation in Asia for twenty-six years, he is the co-author of the Global 200 Ecoregions, an effort to establish global priorities for biodiversity conservation.

Introduction: Nature's Belated Embrace
Early Wanderings
Tigerland
An Inordinate Fondness for Bats
Kingdom of the Snow Leopard
Further Detours
Last Voyage of Captaincookia
Return to the Lost World
Miombo Warriors
Trespassers in Eden
Where the Buffalo Still Thunder
Epilogue: Re-Tigering
Acknowledgments
Index