Tiger Moon: Tracking the Great Cats in Nepal
Autor Fiona Sunquist, Mel Sunquisten Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 apr 2003
Tiger Moon is the powerful, poetic story of the Sunquists' two years studying tigers in Nepal—traveling by elephant, avoiding a rhino attack, and learning to recognize individual tigers by roar. A new afterword tells the story of promising efforts to reconnect fractured Nepalese tiger habitats.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780226779973
ISBN-10: 0226779971
Pagini: 187
Ilustrații: 71 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10: 0226779971
Pagini: 187
Ilustrații: 71 halftones
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press
Notă biografică
Fiona Sunquist is a science writer and photographer, and for fifteen years she was a roving editor for International Wildlife Magazine.
Mel Sunquist is an associate professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Together they are the authors of Florida: The Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide and Wild Cats of the World, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Mel Sunquist is an associate professor in the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Together they are the authors of Florida: The Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guide and Wild Cats of the World, the latter published by the University of Chicago Press.
Cuprins
Prologue
1The Mountains Had Wings
2Catching a Tiger
3Chitwan, Then and Now
4Tracking the Tigers
5The Mauling
6Grass Cutters
7Views from a Hide
8Tiger Moon
9The Roaring Tigress
10A Boat Journey
11Luxury in the Jungle
12Last Days in Chitwan
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Nepali Terms
The Large Mammals of Chitwan
References
Index
1The Mountains Had Wings
2Catching a Tiger
3Chitwan, Then and Now
4Tracking the Tigers
5The Mauling
6Grass Cutters
7Views from a Hide
8Tiger Moon
9The Roaring Tigress
10A Boat Journey
11Luxury in the Jungle
12Last Days in Chitwan
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Nepali Terms
The Large Mammals of Chitwan
References
Index