Gorillas Of The Impenetrable Forest

Author : Thor Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692275009
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impenetrable Forest written by Thor Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lying in the remote hills of southwest Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest harbors elephants, chimpanzees, monkeys, and half the world's population of endangered mountain gorillas. For two years, Thor Hanson called that forest home, working with local guides and trackers to develop an ecotourism program for the newly-formed Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. Thoroughly researched and beautifully told, Hanson's story blends natural history with cultural insight to place the forest and the gorillas in the context of modern Africa. The Impenetrable Forest offers a rare glimpse into the world of mountain gorillas, and the human cultures that surround them. A must-read for anyone interested in gorilla tracking, endangered species, or travel to Uganda.

Author : Thor Hanson
Publisher : 1500 Books LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781933698199
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Impenetrable Forest written by Thor Hanson and published by 1500 Books LLC. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A self-described eco-nerd Thor Hanson, scientist and writer, brought the nascent gorilla tourist program in Bwindi National Park, located within Africa's Impenetrable Forest, to life. With grace and good humor Hanson navigates the local customs, mores and bureaucracy governing everything from love to superstition to build infrastructure, hire and train staff, fend off millions of ants among many other creatures while studying and acclimating the mountain gorillas to humans in their midst.

Author : Carol Schaller Carmichael
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544963426
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gorillas of the Impenetrable Forest written by Carol Schaller Carmichael and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of the Mountain Gorillas of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest. There are no words, just images. The gorillas' expressions speak for themselves. Most photos are as large as would fit on the page.

Author : Carol Schaller Carmichael
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781366134592
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gorillas of the Impenetrable Forest written by Carol Schaller Carmichael and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of the mountain gorillas of the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda. The book has virtually no words. The expressions on the gorillas faces speak for themselves.

Author : Craig Britton Stanford
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apes of the Impenetrable Forest written by Craig Britton Stanford and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2008 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apes of the Impenetrable Forest (The Behavioral Ecology of Sympatiric Chimpanzees and Gorillas) offers students a scholary and relevant study. This is an account of a nine year project on the behaviour and ecology of chimpanzees and mountain gorillas living in the same African forest. Students are able to see the way in which a project is planned and put into action as well as the results.

Author : Thor Hanson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465048722
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Triumph of Seeds written by Thor Hanson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As seen on PBS's American Spring LIVE, the award-winning author of Buzz and Feathers presents a natural and human history of seeds, the marvels of the plant kingdom. "The genius of Hanson's fascinating, inspiring, and entertaining book stems from the fact that it is not about how all kinds of things grow from seeds; it is about the seeds themselves." -- Mark Kurlansky, New York Times Book Review We live in a world of seeds. From our morning toast to the cotton in our clothes, they are quite literally the stuff and staff of life: supporting diets, economies, and civilizations around the globe. Just as the search for nutmeg and pepper drove the Age of Discovery, coffee beans fueled the Enlightenment and cottonseed sparked the Industrial Revolution. Seeds are fundamental objects of beauty, evolutionary wonders, and simple fascinations. Yet, despite their importance, seeds are often seen as commonplace, their extraordinary natural and human histories overlooked. Thanks to this stunning new book, they can be overlooked no more. This is a book of knowledge, adventure, and wonder, spun by an award-winning writer with both the charm of a fireside story-teller and the hard-won expertise of a field biologist. A fascinating scientific adventure, it is essential reading for anyone who loves to see a plant grow.

Author : John Fowler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681776995
Total Pages : 551 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Forest in the Clouds written by John Fowler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, a riveting insider's account of the fascinating world of Dr. Dian Fossey’s mountain gorilla camp, telling the often-shocking story of the unraveling of Fossey’s Rwandan facility alongside adventures tracking mountain gorillas over hostile terrain, confronting aggressive silverbacks, and rehabilitating orphaned baby gorillas. In A Forest in the Clouds, John Fowler takes us into the world of Karisoke Research Center, the remote mountain gorilla camp of Dr. Dian Fossey, a few years prior to her gruesome murder. Drawn to the adventure and promise of learning the science of studying mountain gorillas amid the beauty of Central Africa’s cloud forest, Fowler soon learns the cold harsh realities of life inside Fossey’s enclave ten thousand feet up in the Virunga Volcanoes. Instead of the intrepid scientist he had admired in the pages of National Geographic, Fowler finds a chain-smoking, hard-drinking woman bullying her staff into submission. While pressures mount from powers beyond Karisoke in an effort to extricate Fossey from her domain of thirteen years, she brings new students in to serve her most pressing need—to hang on to the remote research camp that has become her mountain home. Increasingly bizarre behavior has targeted Fossey for extrication by an ever-growing group of detractors—from conservation and research organizations to the Rwandan government. Amid the turmoil, Fowler must abandon his own research assignments to assuage the troubled Fossey as she orders him on illegal treks across the border into Zaire, over volcanoes, in search of missing gorillas, and to serve as surrogate parent to an orphaned baby ape in preparation for its traumatic re-introduction into a wild gorilla group. This riveting story is the only first-person account from inside Dian Fossey’s beleaguered camp. Fowler must come to grips with his own aspirations, career objectives, and disappointments as he develops the physical endurance to keep up with mountain gorillas over volcanic terrain in icy downpours above ten thousand feet, only to be affronted by the frightening charges of indignant giant silverbacks or to be treed by aggressive forest buffalos. Back in camp, he must nurture the sensitivity and patience needed for the demands of rehabilitating an orphaned baby gorilla. A Forest in the Clouds takes the armchair adventurer on a journey into an extraordinary world that now only exists in the memories of the very few who knew it.

Author : Richard Sobol
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763622818
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breakfast in the Rainforest written by Richard Sobol and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the mountain gorilla in their remote habitat in Uganda, discussing the characteristics and behavior of the animals, the reasons for their endangered status, and the efforts being made to keep them from becoming extinct.

Author : Dian Fossey
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618083602
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gorillas in the Mist written by Dian Fossey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1983 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents thirteen years of field research on the endangered mountain gorilla of the African rain forest.

Author : Charlotte Beauvoisin
Publisher : Horizon Guides
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walking With Gorillas written by Charlotte Beauvoisin and published by Horizon Guides. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s something undoubtedly fascinating about our giant cousins, the magnificent mountain gorillas of Sub-Saharan Africa. It’s partially down to their sheer size — you can’t fail to be impressed by a creature that colossal. But there’s something deeper, more endearing. The combination of awesome strength with profound gentleness; the depth of their social bonds; their harmony with their environment; their vulnerability and their struggle to survive. Perhaps our fascination comes from us seeing in them what we wish we saw in ourselves?