In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard , an intimate portrait of the endangered, exotic, and elusive jaguar When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend--yet verifiably real. Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding ...
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In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard , an intimate portrait of the endangered, exotic, and elusive jaguar When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend--yet verifiably real. Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as varmints or as icons, trophies or gods? He is drawn from border badlands south to Panama's rain forest along a route where the fate of nearly all wildlife now rests in human hands. Mahler's odyssey introduces him to unrepentant poachers, pragmatic ranchers, midnight drug-runners, ardent conservationists, trance-induced shamans, hopeful biologists, stodgy bureaucrats, academic philosophers, macho hunters, and gentle Maya Indians. Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his search--and the enduring symbolism of the jaguar.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book Very clean hardcover first printing in clean unchipped dust jacket, now in new archival quality removable mylar cover. Black boards with bright gold lettering on spine. Small bump to one lower corner tip. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound, pages and edges are clean and unmarked. Illustrated with photographs. 359 pages. Clean jacket is unchipped, unclipped, no tears.