Searching for Pekpek: Cassowaries and Conservation in the New Guinea Rainforest
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (538 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989390306 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 254 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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J. The book is absolutely wonderful - an erudite and straight-talking breath of fresh air!Jemima Grant-- Australian Broadcasting CorporationI have just finished reading Searching for Pekpek (at 3 AM this morning - It's so good, I literally couldn't put it down!) What an amazing story - and beautifully told. It's Bill Bryson meets Bill McKibben, in turns funny, poignant, informative, depressing, and inspiring. Robert McCracken Peck Senior Fellow, The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University a beautifully written, well-told story of a biologists who goes to the Papua New Guinea rainforestSearching for Pekpek is a must-read for anyone involved in international conservation efforts (donors as well as administrators and scientists), but also for anyone who loves good science and nature writing.Avery Hurt Self Publishing ReviewThe book is fantastic. I am mos
The ensuing adventures of this unorthodox biologist--studying seeds found in cassowary droppings (pekpek), learning to live among the indigenous Pawai'ia, traversing jungles, fighting pests and loneliness, struggling against unscrupulous oil speculators, and more--are woven into a compelling tale that spans two decades. Andrew Mack immersed himself in a vast expanse of roadless, old growth rainforest of Papua New Guinea in 1987. He ultimately gained profound insight into why conservation is failing in places like Papua New Guinea and struggled to create a more viable strategy for conserving some of Earth's last wild rainforests.. Their mission was to study the secretive and perhaps most dinosaur-like creature still roaming the planet: the cassowary. Mack shares the insights he garnered about rainforest ecology while studying something as seemingly mundane as cassowary pekpek. He and his co-investigator Debra Wright, built a research station by hand and lived there for years
frustrations and many tiny victories – all the little moments that go into informing a great script. It was a feat to relocate f I see James Cameron’s Pandora in my mind’s eye, but behind the scenes – the internal conversations, the private moments,sickness,death, frustrations and many tiny victories – all the little moments that go into informing a great script.It was a feat to relocate from a jungle of concrete, steel and glass to the forest – with jungle of trees that seem to stretch all the way to the end of the earth, covered with man eating vines, giant waterfalls, steep mountains, misty valleys, flash floods, pr. An Adventure Story with Passionate Insights into Modern Conservation As someone who grew up enthralled by the books of Thor Heyerdahl, I found Andew L. Mack's "Searching for Pekpek" an engrossing and passionate look at his years in the New Guinea rain forest. As exciting as any adventure novel, Andy's prose pulls us in to the challenges, discomforts, and joys of a world few of us can imagine, all the while exposing the reader to heartfelt lessons in conservation and the conflict of cultures. A beautifully written, breathtaking guide to the kind of scientific adventures you didn't think hap. Dave G. said Birds, birding, and adventure in Papua New Guinea. I was home in the middle of the day when "Pekpek" arrived in the mail. I had been doing an errand and thought I was going back to work, but not to be. I read Pekpek in one sitting. I laughed, I was riveted, I anguished, I was mesmerized. How Mack found the research station site and the story was fantastic. I felt the feeling of a chopper coming in to the helipad Andrew Mack's description of the two captive cassowaries and their higher brain functions were excellent and funny. One sitting for you too is my prediction.