Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig--has shared with readers her amazing encounters with intelligent octopi, great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but here her muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asia's golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science--until Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium. ...
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Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig--has shared with readers her amazing encounters with intelligent octopi, great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but here her muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asia's golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science--until Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium. Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery's quest--fraught with danger and mayhem--to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her littleknown subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka! It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into fantastic travelogue.
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Add this copy of Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure to cart. $56.93, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Chelsea Green Publishing.
Add this copy of Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure to cart. $160.71, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2009 by Chelsea Green Publishing.
Take a bumpy ride on a motorcycle through the Southeast Asian jungles as Sy Montgomery takes you by the hand on another journey to find a bear we normal folk have never heard of before as she and Professor Gary J. Galbreath go in...... Search for The Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Pursuit of a New Species. Beware of the perils that await you of armed gunmen, if you don't follow the spiritual lemmings into the roadside Temple to pray for your safe passage before entering the jungle...just in case! The most adventurous and spell-binding of any Montgomery titles, it will keep you on the edge of your seat as you follow her and Galbreath through this heart stopping, teeth clenching, anger inducing, wild action adventure with a lot of science, a bit of local flavor, a touch of history and some humor thrown in for good measure as only Montgomery can do. Get your passport out, take your shoes off and be prepared to be searched by airport security, because after you read this book, you will be a Tree Hugger-conservationist for life! Like Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest and The Good Good Pig:The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood, this is another must have Sy Montgomery book for your library collection!
