Monster of God  -  David Quammen

The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind

KORTE INHOUD

For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above—so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that w...
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2003 Uitgever: W.W. Norton & Company 515 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0393051404 ISBN-13: 9780393051407