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A Dark Place in the Jungle: Following Leakeys Last Angel Into Borneo by Linda Spalding Publisher Comments Spalding takes readers on a fascinating journey through Borneo's threatened jungles on the trail of infamous orangutan researcher Birute Galdikas.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Snow Leopard (Penguin Nature Classics) by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas— now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists and the India by Hemanta Mishra Publisher Comments Selected as one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly In early 2006, National Public Radio reported that “A promising conservation effort to save one of Nepals signature endangered species is now in serious trouble, due primarily to... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists and the Indian Rhinoceros by Hemanta Mishra Publisher Comments The story of a Nepalese who has spent his entire life safeguarding an endangered species This new release is a spirited yet humble account of one man’s scientific career and personal journey to save the endangered rhinoceros in his native Nepal. Fresh... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $17.74 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments When Peter Matthiessen set out with the field biologist George Schaller from Pokhara, in northwest Nepal, their hope was to reach the Crystal Mountain — a foot journey of 250 miles or more across the Himalaya — in the Land of Dolpo, on the... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Vietnam: A Natural History by Eleanor Jane Sterling Publisher Comments Eleanor Jane Sterling is director and Martha Maud Hurley and Le Duc Minh are biodiversity scientists at the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History. Joyce A. Powzyk is visiting assistant professor of biology at... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $19.52 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Soul of the Tiger: Searching for Nature's Answers in Southeast Asia by Jeffrey A. McNeely Publisher Comments Anecdotes, facts, and observations on the role animals play in the daily life of Southeast Asian... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $16.85 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Deer and the Tiger by George B. Schaller Publisher Comments The Deer and the Tigeris Schaller's detailed account of the ecology and behavior of Bengal tigers and four species of the hoofed mammals on which they prey, based on his observations in India's Kanha National Park. "This book is a treasure house of... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $35.15 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal by Henry Nicholls Publisher Comments Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. For almost a century they defied classification; they outwitted hunters and escaped trappers, left the public elbowing and zoo turnstiles spinning,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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Do We Need Pandas?: The Uncomfortable Truth about Biodiversity by Thompson Publisher Comments How much do we really know about the species that make up the natural world? In this fascinating book Ken Thompson explains what we do and don't understand about biodiversity. We know that most species remain undiscovered, and that biodiversity is... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Vietnam: A Natural History by Eleanor J Sterling Publisher Comments A country uncommonly rich in plants, animals, and natural habitats, the Socialist Republic of Vietnam shelters a significant portion of the world’s biological diversity, including rare and unique organisms and an unusual mixture of tropical and... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Lost Land of the Dodo: An Ecological History of Mauritius, Reunion & Rodrigues by Anthony Cheke Publisher Comments Uninhabited by humans, the Mascarene Islands of the Indian Ocean were once home to an extraordinary range of birds and reptiles: giant tortoises, parrots, skinks, geckos, burrowing boas, flightless rails and herons, and, most famously, dodos. But the... (read more) List Price $61.25 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal by Vicki Croke Publisher Comments Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond the Last Village: A Journey of Discovery in Asia's Forbidden Wilderness by Alan Rabinowitz Publisher Comments In 1993, Alan Rabinowitz, called "the Indiana Jones" of wildlife science by The New York Times, arrived for the first time in the country of Myanmar, known until 1989 as Burma, uncertain of what to expect. Working under the auspices of the Wildlife... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Through the Tiger's Eyes by Stanley Breeden Publisher Comments National Geographic filmmakers Belinda Wright and Stanley Breeden have spent twenty astonishing years living, filming, and writing in the Indian jungles, and this gorgeous book is both a lyrical photographic memoir of their encounters with Indian... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Giant Pandas in the Wild by Lu Zhi Publisher Comments "Of course the panda is not safe. Nor will it ever be. It will always be threatened by something, attracting adversity as readily as adoration. We know what the panda needs: a forest with bamboo, a den for its young, and freedom from persecution... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation by Donald G. Lindburg Publisher Comments The much-loved giant panda, a secretive denizen of the dense bamboo forests of western China, has become an icon worldwide of progress in conservation and research. This volume, written by an international team of scientists and conservationists... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $14.97 Sale - Hardcover
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The Way of the Panda: The Curious History of China's Political Animal by Henry Nicholls Publisher Comments Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. Yet in spite of humankind's evident obsession with the giant panda, it is only in the last few decades that scientific research has begun to show... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Lady and the Panda: The True Adventures of the First American Explorer to Bring Back China's Most Exotic Animal by Vicki Constantine Croke Publisher Comments Here is the astonishing true story of Ruth Harkness, the Manhattan bohemian socialite who, against all but impossible odds, trekked to Tibet in 1936 to capture the most mysterious animal of the day: a bear that had for countless centuries lived in secret... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Snow Leopard (Penguin Classics) by Peter Matthiessen Publisher Comments An unforgettable spiritual journey through the Himalayas? now celebrating its thirtieth anniversary IN 1973, Peter Matthiessen and field biologist George Schaller traveled high into the remote mountains of Nepal to study the Himalayan blue sheep and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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