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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 vermin 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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Book category Books in English Earth sciences, geography, environment, planning The environment Conservation of the environment

• Full title: Jaguar's Shadow
• Subtitle: Searching for a Mythic Cat
• Author: Richard Mahler
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 376
• EAN: 9780300122251
• ISBN: 030012225X
• ID: 04574170
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Weight: 660 g
• Dimensions: 242 × 165 × 28 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. September 2009

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