Synopses & Reviews
Deep Jungle is an exploration of the most alien and feared habitat on earth. Beginning with mans earliest recorded adventures, Fred Pearce takes us high into the canopyhome to two-thirds of all the creatures on our planet. Pearce also uncovers secrets about how evolution works, the intricate links that connect us all, and possible new clues to human origins. The jungle holds the key to our future foods and medicines, our climate, and our understanding of how life works; yet, environmentalists say we are on the verge of destroying the last rainforests, and with them, the planets evolutionary cruciblemaybe even its ability to sustain life. But nature has a way of reclaiming itself, at the ultimate cost to man, and it may do so again. Fred Pearce, former news editor at New Scientist, is currently the magazines environment and development consultant. An award-winning journalist, he also writes regularly for the Independent and The Times Higher Education Supplement and, in the US, for The Boston Globe and Foreign Policy.
Review
"Full of interesting biological tidbits and stories of scientists, explorers, capitalists, and indigenous peoples, Deep Jungle is an excellent primer on rain forests." —Booklist
Review
The companion to the major PBS nature series, this book takes us deep into the heart of the jungle.
Synopsis
Deep Jungle is an examination of the biodiversity that exists in the jungle and which holds the key to our future foods and medicines, our climate and to our understanding of how life works. We neglect this natural treasure at our peril, argues Fred Pearce.
From the Hardcover edition.
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An award-winning journalist takes us deep into the heart of the rain forests, past and present, to explore the many wonders of one of the final frontiers of biological science, where new discoveries occur daily.
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About the Author
Fred Pearce explores every aspect of the world's rainforests. Following the trail of jungle adventurers from the past and from our high-tec present, he examines both the remains of early civilizations and the clues to our own civilization's dependence on the flora and fauna of the canopy.