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An engrossing, adventure-filled account of the rush to discover and save Vietnam's most extraordinary animals Deep in the jungle where the borders of Vietnam meet those of Laos and Cambodia is a region known as "the lost world." Large mammals never seen before by Western science have popped up frequently in these mountains in the last decade, including a half-goat/half-ox, a deer that barks, and a close relative of the nearly extinct Javan rhino. In an age when scientists are excited by discovering a new kind of tube worm, the thought of finding and naming a new large terrestrial mammal is astonishing, and wildlife biologists from all over the world are flocking to this dangerous region. The result is a race between preservation and destruction.
About the Author
Dan is an award-winning foreign correspondent who specializes in "adventure science," accompanying researchers into the field to explain their world. It's similar to what George Plimpton used to do for sports writing - when Plimpton wrote about football, for example, he spent a season on the team of the Detroit Lions. Dan does the same for science, whether in the jungle or in the bowels of the world's largest machine. His articles have appeared in Scientific American, International Wildlife, Natural History, Cosmos, and on the BBC. He's a TEDx speaker, and held a Fulbright to Australia. He worked for CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, as editor of an on-line weekly magazine, where his office was 100 yards away from the LHC's "injection point." If the machine was to cause any black holes, he would have been the first to know. There is a video on the making of the book on youtube, which is from a TEDxFulbright talk Dan did in Frankfurt, Germany. You can cut and paste it into your browser bit.ly/IpN3LJ
