Download or read book Explorations and Discoveries During Four Years Wanderings in the Wilds of South Western Africa written by Charles John Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Ngami or Explorations and discoveries during four years wanderings in the wilds of south western Africa With an introductory letter by John Charles Fremont With numerous illustrations etc written by Carl Johan ANDERSSON and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Ngami written by Charles John Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Ngami written by Charles John Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lake Ngami written by Charles John Andersson and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Science library in the South Kensington museum written by Science museum libr and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Science Library in the South Kensington Museum written by South Kensington Museum. Science Library and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue written by New York Free Circulating Library. Bond Street Branch and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Horn of Darkness written by Carol Cunningham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The black rhino is nature's tank, feared by all animals. Even lions will break off a hunt to detour around one. And yet the black rhino is on the edge of extinction, its numbers dwindling from 100,000 at the turn of the century, to less than 2,500 today. The reason is that in places like Yemen, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, the rhino's horn is more valuable than gold, so valuable that people will risk their lives to harvest it. To deter rhino poachers, African governments have spent millions--on helicopters, paramilitary operations, fences and guard dogs, even relocation to protected areas. Finally, Namibia decided to de-horn its rhino population, in a last ditch effort to stop the slaughter. In 1991, Carol Cunningham and Joel Berger, and their eighteen-month-old daughter Sonja, went to Namibia to weigh the effects of de-horning on rhinos. In Horn of Darkness, they tell the story of three years in the Namib Desert, studying Africa's last sizable population of free-roaming black rhinos. This is the closest most readers will come to experiencing life in the remaining wilds of Africa. Cunningham and Berger, writing nate chapters, capture what it is like to leave the comforts of civilization, to camp for months at a time in a land filled with deadly predators, to study an animal that is reclusive, unpredictable, and highly dangerous. The authors describe staking out water holes in the dead of the night, creeping to within twenty-seven meters of rhinos to photograph them, all the while keeping a lookout for hyenas, elephants, and lions. They recount many heart-pounding escapes--one rhino forces Carol Cunningham up a tree, an unseen lion in hot pursuit of hyenas races right past a frozen Joel Berger--and capture the adrenaline rush of inching closer to a rhino that might flee--or charge--at any moment. They also give readers a clear sense of the careful, patient work involved in studying animals, the frustration of long days without finding rhinos or seeing other people, coping with heat and thirst (the Namib desert is one of the driest on Earth), with dirt and insects, driving hundreds of kilometers in a Land Rover packed to capacity, slowing amassing records on one hundred individual rhinos over the course of several years. And perhaps most important, the authors reveal that the data they collected suggests that the de-horning project might backfire--that in the four years after de-horning began, calf survival was down (the evidence suggests that hyenas might be preying on calves and the horn less mothers couldn't defend their offspring). They also describe the dark side of scientific work, from the petty jealousy of other scientists--outside researchers were often seen as ecological imperialists--to the controversy that erupted after the authors published their findings, as furious officials of the Namibian conservation program denounced their findings and through delays and other tactics effectively withheld a permit to allow the couple to continue their study. Weaving together the historical accounts of other naturalists, a vividly detailed look at life in the wild, and a behind-the-scenes glimpse of scientific work and the dark side of the conservation movement, Horn of Darkness is destined to be a classic work on the natural world.
Download or read book Century of Genocide written by Samuel Totten and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rwandan government forces, as well as Cambodia's Khmer Rouge and German, Bosnian and U.S. governments, have all been guilty of the destruction of theirindigenous cultures. This book analyses the major atrocities of our times, including recent cases of genocide in Yugoslavia and Iraq.
Download or read book The Uncivilized Races of Men in All Countries of the World written by John George Wood and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Grey Undercurrent written by Felix Schürmann and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By extending their voyages to all oceans from the 1760s onward, whaling vessels from North America and Europe spanned a novel net of hunting grounds, maritime routes, supply posts, and transport chains across the globe. For obtaining provisions, cutting firewood, recruiting additional men, and transshipping whale products, these highly mobile hunters regularly frequented coastal places and islands along their routes, which were largely determined by the migratory movements of their prey. American-style pelagic whaling thus constituted a significant, though often overlooked factor in connecting people and places between distant world regions during the long nineteenth century. Focusing on Africa, this book investigates side-effects resulting from stopovers by whalers for littoral societies on the economic, social, political, and cultural level. For this purpose it draws on eight local case studies, four from Africa’s west coast and four from its east coast. In the overall picture, the book shows a broad range of effects and side-effects of different forms and strengths, which it figures as a "grey undercurrent" of global history.
Download or read book Bernard Quaritch written by Bernard Quaritch (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement No 2 to the Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City N J Jan 1 1893 written by Free Public Library of Jersey City and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Supplement No 1 to the Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City Oct 1 1891 written by Free Public Library of Jersey City and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Alphabetical Finding List of the Free Public Library of Jersey City New Jersey August 1 1891 written by Free Public Library of Jersey City and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
