Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in Southeast Asia Reprint Edition Edition Contributor(s): Montgomery, Sy (Author), Galbreath, Gary (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1603580638 ISBN-13: 9781603580632 Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: August 2009 * Out of Print * Annotation: Montgomery takes readers on an exciting adventure as she travels Southeast Asia in search of the golden moon bear. Here, she chronicles the detective work and science behind tracking a new species in a different part of the world. Full color. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Nature | Animals - Bears - Nature | Essays - Nature | Animals - Wildlife |
Dewey: 599.78 |
LCCN: 2008052556 |
Age Level: 10-13 |
Grade Level: 5-8 |
Physical Information: 0.87" H x 5.58" W x 8.48" L (1.00 lbs) 336 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
Features: Bibliography, Ikids, Illustrated, Maps, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 83166 Reading Level: 6.3 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 3.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Sy Montgomery--acclaimed author of The Soul of an Octopus and bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig--has shared with readers her amazing encounters with intelligent octopi, great apes, man-eating tigers, and pink river dolphins, but here her muse is an animal whose name and appearance evoke another world altogether. Southeast Asia's golden moon bear, with its luminous coat, lionlike mane, and Mickey Mouse ears, was unknown to science--until Montgomery and her colleagues got on the trail at the dawn of the new millennium. Search for the Golden Moon Bear recounts Montgomery's quest--fraught with danger and mayhem--to reconstruct an evolutionary record and piece together a living portrait of her littleknown subject. This beautiful animal is not just a scientific eureka It is also a powerful symbol of conservation. Search for the Golden Moon Bear is a field report from the frontiers of science and the ends of the earth, seamlessly weaving together folklore, natural history, and contemporary research into fantastic travelogue. |
Contributor Bio(s): Montgomery, Sy: - Researching articles, films, and her twenty-one books for adults and children, bestselling author Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Rwanda, hunted by a tiger in India, and swum with piranhas, electric eels, and pink dolphins in the Amazon. Her work has taken her from the cloud forest of Papua New Guinea (for a book on tree kangaroos) to the Altai Mountains of the Gobi (for another on snow leopards.) Her books for adults include The Soul of an Octopus (a National Book Award finalist), The Good Good Pig, Birdology, Spell of the Tiger, Journey of the Pink Dolphins, and Walking with the Great Apes. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, the writer Howard Mansfield, their border collie, Thurber, and their flock of free-range laying hens. |
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