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02227aam a22003614i 4500 001 3415654C904111E685A40C86DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20161012010034 008 160303t20162016nyuaf b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2016007803 020 $a 0385354363 (hardcover : alk. paper) 020 $a 9780385354363 (hardcover : alk. paper) 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SKYRV $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a QL82 $b .A424 2016 082 00 $a 333.95/416 $2 23 100 1 $a Alexander, Jane, $d 1939- 245 10 $a Wild things, wild places : $b adventurous tales of wildlife and conservation on planet Earth / $c Jane Alexander. 264 1 $a New York : $b Alfred A. Knopf, $c 2016. 300 $a xv, 330 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "A Borzoi book." 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Prologue -- Tiger man -- Mexico -- Belize -- Thailand -- Idaho -- Nepal -- Myanmar -- India -- Brazil -- Wildlife woman -- Birds -- Peru -- Papua New Guinea -- Hawaii -- Galapagos -- Newfoundland -- Amazonia -- Africa -- The body of the Earth -- Desert -- Killers -- Bhutan -- Bahamas -- Ecuador -- Ocean -- Epilogue. 520 $a In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world--to her, the prophets in the wilderness--who are steeped in this work, of her travels with them--and on her own--to the most remote and forbidding areas of the world as they try to save many species, including ourselves. 650 0 $a Wildlife conservation. 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 941 $a 5 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305013105.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006101349.0 952 $l HWAX074 $d 20170620011028.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170302014725.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20161202013646.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3415654C904111E685A40C86DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search