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Monster of God

The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

By David Quammen

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| Hardcover | 9780393051407

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The beasts that have always ruled our jungles and our nightmares are dying. What will become of us without them?

For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 21Continue

The beasts that have always ruled our jungles and our nightmares are dying. What will become of us without them?

For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above—so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem.

Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo examines the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia, of brown bears in the mountains of Romania, and of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East. In the poignant and troublesome ferocity of these embattled creatures, we recognize something primeval deep within us, something in danger of vanishing forever. 8 maps.

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  • Nature bites back

    Monster of God: The Man-eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind by David Quammen 516pp, Hutchinson, £25 TV executives in the US are fond of saying that there are only three certainties in life: death, taxes and Shark Week on the Discov ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Monster of God By David Quammen

    We are horrified when a crocodile snatches and devours a baby or a dog. Determined to teach the beast a lesson for violating our sense of decency, we hunt for it with the intent of imposing the ultimate penalty. Such scenarios might someday cease tha ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Sat, 18 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Hardcover 384 Pages
  • Edition: 1st
  • ISBN-10: 0393051404
  • ISBN-13: 9780393051407
  • Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
  • Pub date: Sep 08, 2003
  • Also available as: Paperback
  • In other languages: other languages Libri Italiani
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