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The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
William Debuys
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Description for The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures
Paperback. An award-winning author's stirring quest to find and understand an elusive and exceptionally rare species in the heart of Southeast Asia's jungles. Num Pages: 368 pages, 22 b/w photos run w/text. BIC Classification: RNKH1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 140 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 344.
In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years.
Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in the wilds of central Laos. The team endured a punishing trek, up and down whitewater rivers and through mountainous terrain ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780316232876
SKU
V9780316232876
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About William Debuys
William deBuys is the author of eight books, including River of Traps, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist; Enchantment and Exploitation; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008); and A Great Aridness. An active conservationist, deBuys lives in New Mexico.
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