George B. Schaller

Deki: The Adventures of a Dog and a Boy in Tibet (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

I am coming from behind me and I am going ahead'

A dog can lead you into the corners of some stories better than any human can.

This is a story like that.

In the vast Tibetan plateau, where beauty and cruelty fall as day and night, Deki, a Tibetan mastiff, is born with a moon on her black chest. This is the tale of the dog and her friends, Tashi, Karma, and Changku the wolf. Of how she meets a runaway boy, and of their journey guarding a precious statue, with a vicious bandit at their heels, towards the celestial city of Shambhala. But do they find it?

Deki's story moves with clouds, wild winds and the seasons. It carries the scent of blooming poppies and scurrying pikas, and of friends who leave without saying goodbye. Angry yaks and innocent sheep, fearsome bears and majestic snow leopards walk in and out of its words into caves where wise hermits teach the whys and hows of what everyone in the world wants to know.

Finally, Deki faces the choice before every living creature: a life of comfort within someone else's walls, or freedom - fragile and dangerous, but her own to risk.

Follow Deki into an adventure without end.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hachette India
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: ab 8 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789350098516
• Artikelnr.: 54034749

Autorenporträt

George B. Schaller is a field biologist who has studied wildlife in North and South America, Africa and Asia. Naturalist, conservationist and author, he is well known for his pioneering studies of gorillas in the Congo, lions in Tanzania and tigers in India. He and his wife became the first Westerners to be invited by China to collaborate in a study of giant pandas. Continuing his work in China, he spent many months on the Tibetan plateau with special attention to the conservation of the Tibetan antelope, or chiru, which is illegally hunted for its fine wool. George SchallerÕs honours include the World Wildlife FundÕs gold medal for ÔContributions to the understanding and conservation of endangered speciesÕ, the International Cosmos Prize from Japan, the Baogang Environment Prize from China, and the Salim Ali Environment Prize from India. His book The Serengeti Lion received the National Book Award in the United States. He is vice president of Panthera, an organization devoted to the conservation of wild cats, and senior conservationist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York. His home in the state of Connecticut is near New York, but he can usually be found in some remote corner of the world studying and trying to help protect some rare and elusive animal and its habitat.