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Title: Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
Author: David Quammen
ISBN: 9780393051407
Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 515
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : 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. 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.
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