Title:Across the Tibetan Plateau: Ecosystems, Wildlife, and Conservation
ISBN:9780393061178
Author:Robert L. Fleming. Jr
Dorje Tsering
Liu Wulin
Editor:Jimmy Carter
Publisher:W. W. Norton and Company
Publish Year:2006
Edition:First
Cover:Hard Back
Subject:Natural History / Wildlife | Tibet
Language:English
Remarks:Color and B&W Illustrations.
Pages:120
Size:340 x 255 mm
Weight(gms):1300
Price:USD 22.10
Here is the most comprehensive photography to date of a little-known and seldom-visited land whose area equals western Europe. The beauty and diversity of Tibet is staggering: from Mount Everest to the world’s deepest gorge, from tropical jungles to arctic-like tundra, from trees twenty feet in diameter to vast herds and solitary specimens of some of the least-known animals on the planet. Certain photographs, such as those of a newborn Tibetan antelope or the elusive red ghoral, are among the first ever taken of these subjects. The book brings American, Tibetan, and Chinese scholarship to bear on the natural history of Tibet, and it also describes an extraordinary conservation accomplishment that has gone virtually unnoticed by the outside world. Where else has 40 percent of the land been set aside in nature preserves in twenty years? As a result of this effort, the animals and landscapes shown here will be saved for future generations.