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The Storm Leopard
Martyn Murray
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Description for The Storm Leopard
Paperback. A journey from the Cape of South Africa to the Serengeti Plains taking the reader through the spectacular, talismanic geography of Africa. Combines a trek through wild and remote places with a personal investigation into the relationship between people and nature. A unique book that argues for a new approach to environmental conservation. Num Pages: 272 pages, 16pp colour section. BIC Classification: 1H; RNK; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 172 x 22. Weight in Grams: 700.
The Storm Leopard is an alchemic blend of travel and nature writing that explores the primary dilemma of the 21st century - the conflict of modern lifestyles with the natural environment. This is an account of the author's journey from the Cape to the Serengeti Plains and his search for an answer to the Old Timer, a Kenyan who foretold the end of the wild. Martyn decided on one more trip, but this time without an agenda, without a timetable and without preconceptions: with no purpose other than to know, to feel and to understand. The book is filled ... Read more
The Storm Leopard is an alchemic blend of travel and nature writing that explores the primary dilemma of the 21st century - the conflict of modern lifestyles with the natural environment. This is an account of the author's journey from the Cape to the Serengeti Plains and his search for an answer to the Old Timer, a Kenyan who foretold the end of the wild. Martyn decided on one more trip, but this time without an agenda, without a timetable and without preconceptions: with no purpose other than to know, to feel and to understand. The book is filled ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Whittles Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Caithness, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781849950046
SKU
V9781849950046
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Martyn Murray
Martyn Murray was Nuffield Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge and was later appointed to the University Senate. Other posts include Senior Advisor to the World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Evolutionary Biology of the University of Edinburgh and membership of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Antelope Specialist Group and European Sustainable ... Read more
Reviews for The Storm Leopard
'Martyn Murray, author of a new book, The Storm Leopard, is an ecologist who learnt his trade in Africa. He went back to assess the truth of the prediction made by an old Kenyan in the 1970s: "You mark my words, the will all disappear one day. Every single place." What drives modern agriculture and modern development, says Murray, is ... Read more