LIBROS DEL AUTOR: paul spencer sochaczewski

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  • 'Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird'
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    A Great Man and His Unheralded AssistantFor some 50 years, Paul Sochaczewski has been on the trail of famous naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and his little-known assistant Ali.The result of this quest is an imaginative 'enhanced biography' of an illiterate 19th-century teenager from Borneo who helped Wallace become one of history’s most successful explorers of the natural worl...
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    22,44 €

  • A Conservation Notebook
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    Are You Optimistic We Can Save the Plantet?A Conservation Notebook has plenty of Paul in it, but it’s not intended to be a memoir. Nor is it a history of the modern conservation movement. This highly personal volume from the former head of Creative Services for WWF International wanders from crowded UN conference rooms in Rio to simple farmers in Bhutan, to coral reefs in Micro...
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    23,63 €

  • EarthLove
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    There is a war to save the rainforests of BorneoEarthLove, a satiric eco-adventure, chronicles the history of the global conservation movement and exposes battles pitting ego and greed versus noble intentions. Who has the power to stop the rape of the Borneo rainforest? Rich, virile senator Rod Lawrence promoting left-brain economic arguments? Proto-pagan ethnobotanist Kristin ...
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    21,61 €

  • Dead, but Still Kicking
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    Do you believe in spirits? Paul Sochaczewski travels to Indonesia, Myanmar, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland to speak with mediums, shamans, and, yes, spirits of dead folks. In this innovative work of personal journalism, Sochaczewski—a self-described Agnostic Spiritualist—creates the Three Tenets of Spiritualism. He receives a personal mandate from Moses, speaks with Alfred...
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    22,24 €

  • Exceptional Encounters
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    Can an army of orangutan guerrillas save the Indonesian rainforest? Why is China creating a retirement haven in the South China Sea for rich despots? What happened when the British descendant of the oversexed first White Rajah of Borneo returned to claim his throne? Did Filipino “love sorcerers” help swing a US election? Can an American pilgrim find enlightenment through carnal...
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    14,99 €

  • An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles follows the Victorian-era explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace through Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. While Wallace is recognized as co-discoverer of the theory of natural selection (and was perhaps deliberately sidelined by Darwin), he was also an edgy social commentator and a voracious collector of “natural productions”—he caught, skin...
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    15,08 €

  • Distant Greens
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    Distant Greens travels to the highest golf course in the world, where breathless Tibetan precepts come face to face with the oxymoron of Indian military intelligence. To a golf course in the Amazon rainforest, near the source of rubber, which revolutionized the game. To the Middle Kingdom, to examine claims that it was the Chinese, and not the Scots, who invented golf. And to a...
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    11,92 €

  • Redheads
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    In the middle of a Borneo rainforest, a band of near-naked Penan tribesmen, encouraged by an equally clothes-challenged renegade Swiss shepherd, hesitantly blockade a logging truck, testing their commitment to protect their forest home. Nearby, a researcher studying orangutans is threatened with being thrown out of her study site unless she can reach a delicate compromise with ...
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    11,97 €

  • Curious Encounters of the Human Kind - Southeast Asia
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    What’s the attraction of coffee that’s been digested by a civet? Can 200-million-year-old fossilized freshwater shark dung bring you good luck? Why do boys like to make things go bang – hey, lemme try the AK-47!? Why is the belching and slovenly widow of Laos’s first president so possessive about the animal she considers her white elephant? How did Vietnam’s last elephant hunte...
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    8,07 €

  • Curious Encounters of the Human Kind - Borneo
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    How has a town named after a female vampire ghost spawned an entire genre of kitschy horror films? Why did a quiet Swiss man choose to live rough in the rainforest with the semi-nomadic Penans – and what inner spirit drove him to fight a David vs. Goliath rebellion against timber tycoons and corrupt officials who were destroying the Penans’s forest home? Has White-Brown colonia...
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    10,10 €

  • Share Your Journey
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    Your hero’s journey can take many forms. Perhaps you met your soulmate at a cooking class in Tuscany and now make fresh pasta every evening — you’re 40 kilos overweight but happy. You took your eight-year-old daughter to the lake where your parents took you as a child — she caught her first fish. Or maybe you want to record your family’s history. How Grandfather Ishmael escaped...
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    25,07 €

  • Curious Encounters of the Human Kind - Himalaya
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    What’s a woman to do when a Hindu god doesn’t return her mountain? Would you risk your life by hugging a tree? How do you find a nameless young girl you first met (for five minutes) twenty-six years earlier? For environmental consciousness, should we trust the international bureaucrats or a Bhutanese farmer? Does the yeti illuminate the dark side of our souls? Why do we have an...
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    7,36 €

  • Curious Encounters of the Human Kind - Indonesia
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    Why do prominent modern Indonesian sultans continue love affairs with the Mermaid Queen? Why is the island of Flores Ground Zero for Hobbit sightings? How does a Papuan hunter juggle the four religions which want a piece of his soul? Why did a now-neglected spice cause historic mayhem among greedy Europeans? Why does it make good business sense to make friends with the dragon p...
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    8,73 €

  • Curious Encounters of the Human Kind - Myanmar (Burma)
    Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
    What do jumping cats have to do with Buddhism’s Middle Path? Did Orwell really hate everyone in Burma? How did Myanmar's ruling junta use white elephants to consolidate their power? Will a synagogue caretaker’s improbable dream ever come true? What arrogance drives western travelers to seek the “unknown”? And why should you never disrespect the nat spirits who guard a sacre...
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    8,06 €