The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures - Softcover

The Last Unicorn : A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures

Zustand: Gut. Zustand: Gut | Seiten: 384 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth.<BR><BR> In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in fifty years. <BR><BR> Rare then and rarer now, a live saola had never been glimpsed by a Westerner in the wild when Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in central Laos. Their team endured a punishing trek up and down white-water rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers who roamed the forest, stripping it of wildlife. <BR><BR> In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, The Last Unicorn chronicles deBuys's journey deep into one of the world's most remote places. It's a story rich with the joys and sorrows of an expedition into undiscovered country, pursuing a species as rare and elusive as the fabled unicorn. As is true with the quest for the unicorn, in the end the expedition becomes a search for something more: the essence of wildness in nature, evidence that the soul of a place can endure, and the transformative power of natural beauty. Artikel-Nr. 25482912/3

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