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Life in the valley of death : the fight to save tigers in a land of guns, gold, and greed / Alan Rabinowitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rabinowitz, Alan, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tiger--Conservation--Burma--Hukawng Valley.
- Tiger.
- Rabinowitz, Alan, 1953-.
- Rabinowitz, Alan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Dubbed the Indiana Jones of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted--and risked--his life to protect nature's great endangered mammals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild things, weathering treacherous terrain, plane crashes, and hostile governments. Life in the Valley of Death recounts his most ambitious and dangerous adventure yet: the creation of the world's largest tiger preserve.
- Contents:
- Road to nowhere
- Paradise lost
- The valley of death
- Into the Naga hills
- Rolling the dice
- Into the darkness
- Letting go
- Hungry ghosts
- Where there be tigers
- Conservation warfare
- Jungle politics
- Shaping a miracle
- A question of balance
- Burning bright
- Return to the Naga hills
- Spots of time
- Reaching Mr. Analogue.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-59726-374-5
- 1-4356-9978-5
- OCLC:
- 427507194
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