Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species

Montgomery, Sy

ISBN 10: 1603580638 / ISBN 13: 9781603580632

Verlag: Chelsea Green Publishing (edition Reprint edition, with a new scientific addendum by Gary Galbreath, PhD), 2009

It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting. Reprint edition, with a new scientific addendum by Gary Galbreath, PhD. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1603580638-11-1

Inhaltsangabe:

<p>Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of <em>The Soul of an Octopus</em> and bestselling memoir <em>The Good Good Pig</em>--has shared with readers her amazing encounters with intelligent octopi, great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but here her muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asia's golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science--until Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium.</p><p><em>Search for the Golden Moon Bear</em> recounts Montgomery's quest--fraught with danger and mayhem--to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her littleknown subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. <em>Search for the Golden Moon Bear</em> is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into fantastic travelogue.<br><br><br><br></p>

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Researching articles, films, and her twenty-one books for adults and children, bestselling author Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Rwanda, hunted by a tiger in India, and swum with piranhas, electric eels, and pink dolphins in the Amazon. Her work has taken her from the cloud forest of Papua New Guinea (for a book on tree kangaroos) to the Altai Mountains of the Gobi (for another on snow leopards.) Her books for adults include The Soul of an Octopus (a National Book Award finalist), The Good Good Pig, Birdology, Spell of the Tiger, Journey of the Pink Dolphins, and Walking with the Great Apes. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, the writer Howard Mansfield, their border collie, Thurber, and their flock of free-range laying hens.

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Titel: Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and...
Verlag: Chelsea Green Publishing (edition Reprint edition, with a new scientific addendum by Gary Galbreath, PhD)
Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Very Good