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The Black Rhinos of Namibia: Searching for Survivors in the African Desert Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition
by Bass, Rick
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
Acclaimed nature writer Rick Bass takes us on a journey into the Namib Desert to follow a group of poachers-turned-conservationists as they track the endangered black rhinos through their ancient and harsh African homeland.
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- Title The Black Rhinos of Namibia: Searching for Survivors in the African Desert
- Author Bass, Rick
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition First edition, complete line of
- Condition Used - Near Fine
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston and New York
- Date 2012-08-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # 329978
- ISBN 9780547055213 / 0547055218
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 1.3 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 3.30 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Wildlife conservation, Namibia - Description and travel
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011051598
- Dewey Decimal Code 599.668
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Summary
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.