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The Black Rhinos Of Namibia
Rick Bass
Searching for Survivors in the African Desert
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
August 2012
On Sale: August 7, 2012
272 pages
ISBN: 0547055218
EAN: 9780547055213
Kindle: B005MZN18G
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From one of our most gifted writers on the natural world
comes a stunning exploration of a unique landscape and the
improbable and endangered animal that makes its home
there.
Rick Bass first made a name for himself as a
writer and seeker of rare, iconic animals, including the
grizzlies and wolves of the American West. Now he’s off on a
new, far-flung adventure in the Namib of southwest Africa on
the trail of another fascinating, vulnerable species. The
black rhino is a three-thousand-pound, squinty-eyed giant
that sports three-foot-long dagger horns, lives off
poisonous plants, and goes for days without
water.
Human intervention and cutting-edge
conservation saved the rhinos—for now—from the brink of
extinction brought on by poaching and war. Against the
backdrop of one of the most ancient and harshest terrains on
earth, Bass, with his characteristic insight and grace,
probes the complex relationship between humans and nature
and meditates on our role as both destroyer and
savior.
In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen’s
The Tree Where Man Was Born, Bass captures a haunting
slice of Africa, especially of the “black” rhinos that glow
ghostly white in the gleaming sun
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