The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures

DeBuys, William

ISBN 10: 0316232866 ISBN 13: 9780316232869

Editorial: Little, Brown and Company, 2015

Idioma: Ingl�s

Condici�n: Usado - Regular Encuadernaci�n de tapa dura

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Hardcover, with dust jacket. First Edition. Signed and also inscribed. 8vo(6.25 x 9.5 in.). Quarter-bound with yellow paper and black paper. Stamped gilt titling on the spine. Surface is clean. Three corners angle in but are still solid. There is a small open ding at the front spine bottom. Pages are clean but have faint toning on the outside edges. Jacket is yellow wraps with stylized black lettering. Back cover is full with praise and description of the book's contents. Edges are smooth. Three spots on front are missing color. Back of the front jacket shows exposure to moisture on inside-back. Overall, in fair condition. The highlight is the signature of Mr. deBuys and his salutation to two people. This is an engaging story, well told, of an expedition in search of a rare animal in Laos called a Saola. Of course, the story is more about the journey rather than reaching a destination.

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T�tulo

The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures

Editor

Little, Brown and Company

Fecha de publicaci�n

2015

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0316232866

ISBN 13

9780316232869

Encuadernaci�n

Hardcover

Edici�n

1st Edition

Estado

Fair

Estado de la sobrecubierta

Fair

Firmado

Signed by Author(s)

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Nature and Ecology

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Sinopsis

In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years.

Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in the wilds of central Laos. The team endured a punishing trek, up and down whitewater rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers.

In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, THE LAST UNICORN is deBuys's look deep into one of the world's most remote places. As in the pursuit of the unicorn, the journey ultimately becomes a quest for the essence of wildness in nature, and an encounter with beauty.

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William deBuys is the author of eight books, including River of Traps, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a Pulitzer Prize nonfiction finalist; Enchantment and Exploitation; The Walk (an excerpt of which won a Pushcart Prize in 2008); and A Great Aridness. An active conservationist, deBuys lives in New Mexico.

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The legendary Brodsky Bookshop is the oldest bookshop in magical Taos, New Mexico. It was founded as an eclectic store specializing in new books in 1977 by the late Lee Brodsky in a long, narrow space next to the Taos Inn on Paseo del Pueblo Norte. In the 1980 s Lee purchased Dr. Cook s old office (alleged to have once been a house of ill-repute) a little farther up Pueblo Norte across from Kit Carson Park, and the bookshop moved for the first time. When Lee went to Book Heaven in 1992, my husband (Rick Smith) and I (Morris Witten) bought the bookshop. Along with the off and on assistance of some dedicated staff and the occasional help of our sons, we have continued Lee s tradition of a highly eclectic but always fascinating family owned and operated bookshop. When the internet changed bookselling forever (the last book we sold some awfully good customers was Internet for Dummies ) we began to take a few used books in trade. In the late 90 s we moved the bookshop three doors North to the Ortiz Building (across from the Nicolai Fechin House)and began dealing in both new and used books. We also carry a strange and interesting ever-changing selection of LPs. On March 1st, 2021, we moved one block north into a cozy spot more suitable for doing business online; i.e., space for more books and room to pack boxes. Our online inventory features some of our more unusual and outstanding titles. If you don t see what you want here, please email us. We are happy to search for new, used and rare titles. Next time you re in northern New Mexico stop by and say hello. As we say in our ads -- we are the little bookshop with big surprises.

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