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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
de Quammen, David
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Good in good dust jacket. Some wear and dings at bottom edges of book and DJ. Format appears slightly smaller than usual trade e
- ISBN 10
- 0393051404
- ISBN 13
- 9780393051407
- Librería
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company, 2003. While stating First edition and first printing, DJ has no price. Hardcover. Good in good dust jacket. Some wear and dings at bottom edges of book and DJ. Format appears slightly smaller than usual trade editions.. Book Club Edition. Glued binding. Paper over boards. [10], 384 p. Source Notes. Bibliography. Index. For millennia, lions, tigers and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150, big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above-so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem. Casting his eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, David Quammen examines the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia, of brown bears in the mountains of Romania and of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East. In the poigant and troublesome ferocity of these embattled creatures, we recognise something primeval deep within us, something in danger of vanishing forever. From Wikipedia: "David Quammen (born February 1948) is an award-winning American science, nature and travel writer and the author of fifteen books, five of them fiction. He wrote a column, called "Natural Acts" for Outside magazine for fifteen years. His articles have also appeared in National Geographic, Harper's, Rolling Stone, the New York Times Book Review and other periodicals. In 2013, Quammen's book Spillover was shortlisted for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. When not travelling the world researching his projects, Quammen resides in Bozeman, Montana. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Quammen graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1966. He is a Yale graduate and former Rhodes Scholar; during his graduate studies at Oxford, he studied literature, concentrating on the works of William Faulkner. Quammen was drawn to Montana in the early '70s for the trout fishing."
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 68143
- Título
- Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
- Autor
- Quammen, David
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Good in good dust jacket. Some wear and dings at bottom edges of book and DJ. Format appears slightly smaller than usual trade e
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- While stating First edition and first printing, DJ has no price
- ISBN 10
- 0393051404
- ISBN 13
- 9780393051407
- Editorial
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Lugar de publicación
- New York, NY
- Fecha de publicación
- 2003
- Palabras clave
- Aborigines, Asiatic Lions, Brown Bears, Boar, Carnivores, Ceausecu, Ravi Chellam, Evolution, Gir Wildlife Sanctuary, Herbivores, Hunting, Lions, Maldharis
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