一段關於保護野生老虎的個人生活故事
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更新日期:
2007-07-10
Life in the Valley of Death: The Fight to Save In A Land of Guns, Gold, and Greed
Alan Rabinowitz
Island Press
November 2007
248p
書籍編號:
03-335
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● 內文簡介

被《紐約時代》雜誌稱讚是野生生物科學的印第安那・瓊斯,作者Alan Rabinowitz專注於──甘於冒險──他的生活,一段企圖保護自然界頻臨絕絕老虎的驚險生活。

在《Life in the Valley of Death》一書中,他旅訪世界的每個角落,為了尋找存有野生老虎的土地,搶救危險的地域和飛機墜落造成的毀壞。透過書中紀錄的文字和收錄的照片,我們清楚看到他最偉大的野心和最危險的冒險,即使與癌症病魔對抗之際,仍堅持找到世界最大的老虎保護區──胡岡谷(Hukaung Valley)。

這不僅是一本比野生探險更冒險的書,也是一個關於保護野生生物的個人故事。

 

● 作者簡介

Alan Rabinowitzis executive director of the Science and Exploration Program at the Wildlife Conservation Society. The author of six books, including Jaguar (1986, 2000) and the widely acclaimed Beyond the Last Village (2001), Dr. Rabinowitz has been profiled in The New York Times, National Geographic Adventure Magazine, Outside Magazine, Scientific American, and the PBS/National Geographic television special “In Search of the Jaguar.”

 

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