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Black Rhinos of Namibia : Searching for Survivors in the African Desert

Description: From one of our most gifted writers on the natural world comes a stunning exploration of a unique landscape and the improbable and endangered animal that makes its home there.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. Rick Bass, a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for his memoir Why I Came West and winner of The Story Prize, was born and raised in Texas, worked as a geologist in Mississippi, and has lived in Montana's Yaak Valley for almost four decades. His short fiction, which has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review, as well as numerous times in Best American Short Stories, has earned him multiple O. Henry Awards and Pushcart Prizes in addition to NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. He's on the faculty of the low-residency Stonecoast MFA program, and teaches writing workshops around the country. He's Executive Director of the Yaak Valley Forest Council and a member of The Montana Project, two organizations that will be co-hosting Climate Aid 2024: Keeping Cool Things Cool.

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Location: Waltham, Massachusetts

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Black Rhinos of Namibia : Searching for Survivors in the African Desert

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Book Title: Black Rhinos of Namibia : Searching for Survivors in the African Desert

Number of Pages: 288 Pages

Language: English

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

Item Height: 1.1 in

Topic: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental Conservation & Protection, Endangered Species

Publication Year: 2012

Illustrator: Yes

Genre: Nature, Science

Item Weight: 15.5 Oz

Item Length: 8.2 in

Author: Rick Bass

Item Width: 5.5 in

Format: Hardcover

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