Machine generated contents note: 61. Kora. 2. Portrait of the Pilgrim with Eighty-Eight Toothbrushes -- 3. Levels of Amazement -- 4. The Suli Gad -- 5. A Microdot of the Great Rent -- 6. Circle -- 7. There Is No Problem Here -- 8. Dramatis Personae -- 9. Uplift -- 10. Drift -- 11. Bogu La, 16,959 feet -- 12. On the Trail -- 13. Tokyu Clinic -- 14. Roshi -- 15. Hospice for a Mouse -- 16. Lumber Yaks -- 17. Aunts and Uncles -- 18. Hidden Figure -- 19. Geopoetry -- 2. The Road to Tinje -- 21. Feet -- 22. Tinje R Us -- 23. Strong Back, Soft Front -- 24. Lone Wolf -- 25. An Entire Heaven and an Entire Earth -- 26. Shi men -- 27. Yatra -- 28. The Grandeur Sentence -- 29. The Grandeur of Saldang -- 30. Galapagos -- 31. Invisible in 32 Mechanism -- 33. Saldang Clinic -- 34. Doing the Math -- 35. Survival of the Sexiest -- 36. The Cranes of Namgung -- 37. Flowing Mountains -- 38. Flowing Seafloor -- 39. Tuzo Wilson -- 40. The Jaramillo Event -- 41. Shey -- 42. Prayer Mills -- 43. Reverie -- 44. The Heist -- 45. Hope -- 46. Tsakang -- 47. Sacred Rage -- 48. Kang La -- 49. Birches -- 50. Snow Leopard -- 51. Amchi -- 52. Yeti -- 53. Clinic Notes -- 54. Kanjiroba -- 55. Cutting Deals -- 56. Hospice -- 57. Rina -- 58. Phoksundo, Again -- 59. Bodhisattva -- 60. On the Trail (2) -- 61. Kora.
Summary:
"In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had learned in recent years about the diminishing chances of reversing the damage humans have done to Earth--a way of holding onto hope in the face of devastating loss. As deBuys describes these journeys through one of the Earth's most remote regions, his writing celebrates the staggering natural beauty and biodiversity he finds there, and gives his readers a history lesson of two scientific discoveries--evolution and plate tectonics--that forever changed sapiens' understanding of our planet. Written in a lush and nuanced style evocative of Paul Theroux or Peter Matthiessen, The Trail to Kanjiroba offers a surprising and revitalizing new way to think about Earthcare, one that may enable us to continue the difficult work that needs to be done"-- Provided by publisher.
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