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Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat Hardcover - 2009

by Richard Mahler


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In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen's The Snow Leopard, an intimate portrait of the endangered, exotic, and elusive jaguar When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend--yet verifiably real.

Mahler's passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as varmints or as icons, trophies or gods? He is drawn from border badlands south to Panama's rain forest along a route where the fate of nearly all wildlife now rests in human hands. Mahler's odyssey introduces him to unrepentant poachers, pragmatic ranchers, midnight drug-runners, ardent conservationists, trance-induced shamans, hopeful biologists, stodgy bureaucrats, academic philosophers, macho hunters, and gentle Maya Indians. Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his search--and the enduring symbolism of the jaguar.

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  • Title Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat
  • Author Richard Mahler
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Pages 376
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, New Haven, CT
  • Date 2009-09-07
  • ISBN 9780300122251 / 030012225X
  • Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 15.75 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Jaguar
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008051628
  • Dewey Decimal Code 599.755

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/01/2009, Page 9
  • Publisher's Weekly Annex, 09/21/2009, Page 0

About the author

Richard Mahler is an award-winning writer, editor, and tour guide based in Silver City, New Mexico. He is the author or co-author of ten books, and his reporting on the environment, health, travel, arts, and culture also circulates via newspapers, magazines, the Internet, and public radio.

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