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| Titre : | The Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat |
| Auteurs : | Richard Mahler |
| Type de document : | document électronique |
| Editeur : | [S.l.] : Yale University Press, 2009 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-300-12225-1 |
| Index. décimale : | 599.75 (F├®lid├®s. Chats, lynx, panth├¿res) |
| Résumé : |
When the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legendÔÇöyet verifiably real.
MahlerÔÇÖs passion sets in motion a years-long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries-old debates over how we should properly regard these powerful predators: as varmints or as icons, trophies or gods? He is drawn from border badlands south to PanamaÔÇÖs rain forest along a route where the fate of nearly all wildlife now rests in human hands. MahlerÔÇÖs odyssey introduces him to unrepentant poachers, pragmatic ranchers, midnight drug-runners, ardent conservationists, trance-induced shamans, hopeful biologists, stodgy bureaucrats, academic philosophers, macho hunters, and gentle Maya Indians. Along the way, he is forced to reconsider the true meaning of his searchÔÇöand the enduring symbolism of the jaguar. |
