出版社: Pimlico
副标题: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
出版年: 2012-12-18
页数: 528
定价: GBP 9.99
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9781845951962
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For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals have always shared the landscape with humans. Since the dawn of time our ec...
For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals have always shared the landscape with humans. Since the dawn of time our ecosystems have been linked and humans have co-existed with flesh-eating beasts as members of the same food chain. Now, of course, as humans spread and despoil the planet, these fearsome predators may only survive on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the nature of our own 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 we even belong to an ecosystem. David Quammen's enthralling new book covers the four corners of the globe as he explores the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, saltwater crocodiles in Northern Australia, brown bears in the mountains of Romania, and Siberian tigers. Tracking these great and terrible beasts through the toughest terrain in the world, Quammen is equally intrigued by the traditional relationship between the great predators and the people who live among them, and weaves into his story the fears and myths that have haunted humankind for 3000 years.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
David Quammen is a recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the author of five acclaimed natural history titles. His book, The Song of the Dodo, won the BP Natural World Book Prize in 1996. He lives in Montana.
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人与猛兽,共存是唯一的路

被人类的海洋困在它们的岛上(书摘)
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柚木树光秃秃的,落满了黄褐色的灰尘。相思树和榕树也被灰尘 覆盖。林木簇拥的整座森林,如同一道西兰花天妇罗,已被炎热和干旱烤焦,渴望着雨季的到来。现在是五月下旬,此地正处夏末。随着黎明的曙光开始渗入,热带的黑暗逐渐变成棕色、褐色、棕褐色和其他暗褐色。即使是在树... (展开)
猛兽的力量敌不过武器
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在人类的传说和神话中,总会一种类似的情节,那就是英雄战胜了猛兽或者怪兽,完成了自我的磨练。这样的意识超脱了语言和地理屏障,在任何一个古老的民族记忆里流传。“食人动物”不是一个生物学的概念,但却很好的形容了人类早期记忆里对于这些肉食动物的恐惧。就比如蛇、鳄鱼... (展开)
食人野兽存在的意义是什么?
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不知道有多少人和我一样 买这本书时更多期待的是讲述神话与文化中的野兽 用那些充满荣誉感的、激烈博弈的故事满足一点点对英雄的崇拜情节 或者说就是简单的猎奇 然而读进去以后发现野兽的存在充满了可供深入思考的很多问题 比如这些食人野兽于人类而言存在的意义是什么? 为我... (展开)> 更多书评 5篇
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