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Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
Eric Dinerstein
Dinerstein, currently the World Wildlife Fund's chief scientist, recounts his unintended switch from majoring in filmmaking to studying biology. - Booklist
Seven Stories Press
October 2005
288 pages ISBN: 1559635789 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In 1972, Eric Dinerstein was in film school at Northwestern
University, with few thoughts of nature, let alone
tiger-filled jungles at the base of the Himalayas or the
antelope-studded Serengeti plain. Yet thanks to some
inspiring teachers and the squawk of a little green heron
that awakened him to nature's fundamental wonders,
Dinerstein would ultimately become a leading conservation
biologist, traveling to these and other remote corners of
the world to protect creatures ranging from the striking
snow leopard to the homely wrinkle-faced bat. Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations takes readers on
Dinerstein's unlikely journey to conservation's frontiers,
from early research in Nepal to recent expeditions as head
of Conservation Science at the World Wildlife Fund. We are
there as the author renews his resolve after being swept
downstream on an elephant's back, tracks snow leopards in
the mountains of Kashmir with a remarkable housewife turned
zoologist, and finds unexpected grit in a Manhattanite donor
he guides into the wildest reaches of the Orinoco River. At
every turn, we meet professed and unprofessed ecologists who
share Dinerstein's mission, a cast of free-spirited
characters uncommonly committed to-and remarkably successful
at-preserving slices of the world's natural heritage. A simple sense of responsibility, one feels, shines through
all of Dinerstein's experiences: not just to marvel at what
we see, but to join in efforts sustain the planet's
exquisite design. Tigerland's message is clear: individuals
make all the difference; if we combine science, advocacy,
and passion, ambitious visions for conservation can become
reality-even against overwhelming odds.
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