Malachite Lion: A Travel Adventure in Kenya [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa blanda

Libraries are full of travel books on Africa, but Malachite Lion is a narrative of an unplanned adventure, a modern odyssey that recounts the mysteries and paradoxes of East Africa. The book describes a journey through the crowded, bustling streets of Nairobi, into the wilds of Masai Mara and Amboseli, to ancient, mystifying Mombasa, electrifying Malindi and the sensuous Seychelles. Much of our experience with today's East Africa is limited by what we see in edited natural history documentaries and sensational news stories. For most of us the place is a fantasy, as unreal as Sindbad's Baghdad. Richard Modlin's exciting account of his travels through Kenya and the Seychelles will dispel some of the apprehensions that cloak this strange land and its people. His experiences as a scientist and academic have provided him with the skills to interestingly record his provocative observations, interactions, experiences, feelings and thoughts, and transport the reader beyond the confines of a tour bus. Descriptions of his encounters with the variety of indigenous people and wildlife are poignant, humorous and heartwarming. Malachite Lion is a definite read for anyone who has ever dreamed of traveling to East Africa realistically and vicariously.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Richard Modlin, born in Toledo, Ohio, educated at the Universities of Wisconsin and Connecticut, is an Emeritus Professor of Zoology, a Fulbright Research Award recipient, and past Director of a University Honors Program. He has written over seventy scientific and natural history articles on marine and freshwater invertebrates and has named fourteen new species. His lay articles have appeared in Sea Frontiers, Bird Watchers Digest, Encyclopedia of Environmental Issues, and among other magazines. He has traveled extensively throughout North and Central America, Europe, East Africa, and the islands of the Western Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. Presently, he lives in North Alabama with his wife and a cat named Bugsy.