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George B. Schaller has written 19 work(s)

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A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales from a Life in the Field

Product Description: Since the 1950s, eminent field biologist George Schaller has roamed through many lands observing wild animals and conducting landmark long-term studies that have deepened our understanding of these creatures. He has reported and reflected on his work in classic, much-acclaimed books, including The Last Panda and National Book Award winner The Serengeti Lion, but much of his best writing has been ephemeral, published in magazines, only to drop out of sight...read more

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9781578051298 | 1 edition (Sierra Club Books, April 16, 2007), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Since the 1950s, eminent field biologist George Schaller has roamed through many lands observing wild animals and conducting landmark long-term studies that have deepened our understanding of them.

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9781578051700 | 1 edition (Sierra Club Books, May 4, 2010), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Since the 1950s, eminent field biologist George Schaller has roamed through many lands observing wild animals and conducting landmark long-term studies that have deepened our understanding of these creatures.

The Year of the Gorilla

Product Description: This seminal work chronicles George B. Schaller’s two years of travel and observation of gorillas in East and Central Africa in the late 1950s, high in the Virunga volcanoes on the Zaire-Rwanda-Uganda border. There, he learned that these majestic animals, far from being the aggressive apes of film and fiction, form close-knit societies of caring mothers and protective fathers watching over playful young...read more

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9780226736471 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 30, 2010, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This seminal work chronicles George B.

9780226736488 | Reissue edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 17, 1997), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Relates the experiences of the author and his wife while they lived in Africa for 2 years observing gorillas and other wildlife

Giant Pandas: Biology and Conservation

Product Description: The much-loved giant panda, a secretive denizen of the dense bamboo forests of western China, has become an icon worldwide of progress in conservation and research. This volume, written by an international team of scientists and conservationists including Chinese researchers whose work has not been available in English, tells the promising story of how the giant panda returned from the brink of extinction...read more

By Karen Baragona (editor), Donald G. Lindburg (editor) and George B. Schaller (foreword by)

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9780520238671 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 2004, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The much-loved giant panda, a secretive denizen of the dense bamboo forests of western China, has become an icon worldwide of progress in conservation and research.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land

Examines the threats to the ecological stability of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from global warming and oil development.

By Subhankar Banerjee, Jimmy Carter (foreword by), Peter Matthiessen, Fran Mauer, William H. Meadows, Debbie S. Miller, George B. Schaller and David Allen Sibley

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9780898869095 | 1 edition (Mountaineers Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Examines the threats to the ecological stability of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from global warming and oil development.

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9780898864380 | 1 edition (Mountaineers Books, April 1, 2003), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Examines the threats to the ecological stability of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from global warming and oil development.

Giant Pandas in the Wild: Saving an Endangered Species

Offers a firsthand, in-depth exploration into the giant panda's unique life in the wild, considering the many problems facing the species, the international efforts to conserve its natural habitat, and its complex life cycle.

By Zhi Lu, George B. Schaller and Lu Zhi

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9780893819972 | Aperture, September 1, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Offers an exploration into the giant panda's unique life in the wild, considering the many problems facing the species, the international efforts to conserve its natural habitat, and its complex life cycle.

Antelopes, Deer, and Relatives: Fossil Record, Behavioral Ecology, Systematics, and Conservation

Product Description: From the era of early cave paintings to the present time, ruminants - deer, antelopes, cattle, buffalo, goats, giraffes and their relatives - have captured the human imagination. Present on every continent except Australia and Antarctica, they have also been more important to human subsistence than any other mammalian group...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By George B. Schaller (editor), Elisabeth S. Vrba (editor), Wildlife Conservation Society (corporate author) and Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies (corporate author)

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9780300081428 | Yale Univ Pr, July 1, 2000, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: From the era of early cave paintings to the present time, ruminants - deer, antelopes, cattle, buffalo, goats, giraffes and their relatives - have captured the human imagination.

Wildlife of the Tibetan Steppe

Product Description: The Chang Tang, the vast, remote Tibetan steppe, is home to a unique assemblage of large mammals, including Tibetan antelope, gazelle, argali sheep, wild ass, wild yak, wolves, snow leopards, and others. Since 1985, George B. Schaller and his Chinese and Tibetan co-workers have surveyed the flora and fauna of the Chang Tang...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By George B. Schaller

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9780226736525 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 1, 1998, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The Chang Tang, the vast, remote Tibetan steppe, is home to a unique assemblage of large mammals, including Tibetan antelope, gazelle, argali sheep, wild ass, wild yak, wolves, snow leopards, and others.

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9780226736532 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: The Chang Tang, the vast, remote Tibetan steppe, is home to a unique assemblage of large mammals, including Tibetan antelope, gazelle, argali sheep, wild ass, wild yak, wolves, snow leopards, and others.

The Mountain Gorilla: Ecology and Behavior

By George B. Schaller

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9780226736358 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $27.50

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9780226736495 | Reissue edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1988), cover price $26.50

Light Shining Through the Mist: A Photobiography of Dian Fossey

A new entry in the National Geographic Society's photobiography series chronicles the life and work of Dian Fossey, who studied and tried to protect Africa's rare mountain gorillas before her murder. BOMC.

By Tom L. Matthews and George B. Schaller

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9780792273004 | Natl Geographic Soc Childrens books, August 1, 1998, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Traces the adventurous life of the American woman who worked as a zoologist among the mountain gorillas of the Virunga area of central Africa

Tibet's Hidden Wilderness: Wildlife and Nomads of the Chang Tang Reserve

Product Description: Tibet's Chang Tang ("Northern Plain") is a vast, remote area where ice-capped peaks soar over windswept steppe and arid plains. Its southern reaches are home to nomadic herders, but most of the region is the exclusive domain of a unique community of spectacular and rare mammals - such as wild yak and Tibetan antelope - most of which have seldom been seen, much less studied...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780810938939 | Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Tibet's Chang Tang ("Northern Plain") is a vast, remote area where ice-capped peaks soar over windswept steppe and arid plains.

The Last Panda

Product Description: Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo, hunted mercilessly for its pelt, and hostage to profiteering schemes once in captivity, the panda is on the brink of extinction. Here, acclaimed naturalist George Schaller uses his great evocative powers, and the insight gained by four and a half years in the forests of the Wolong and Tangjiahe panda reserves, to document the plight of these mysterious creatures and to awaken the human compassion urgently needed to save them...read more

By George B. Schaller

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9780226736280 | Univ of Chicago Pr, April 15, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Describes the life of pandas in the wild, looks at their natural habitat, and explains what must be done to prevent their extinction

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9780226736297 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1994), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Dependent on a shrinking supply of bamboo, hunted mercilessly for its pelt, and hostage to profiteering schemes once in captivity, the panda is on the brink of extinction.

Gorilla: Struggle for Survival in the Virungas

Product Description: Gorilla recounts in remarkable color photographs the strange and powerful story of the last few hundred members of a nearly extinct species: the famed mountain gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes. These inhabitants of the forested mountain range bordering Rwanda, Uganda, and Zaire, were brought to the attention of the world through last-ditch efforts to preserve their dwindling survival...read more

By Michael Nichols, Nan Richardson and George B. Schaller

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9780893813499 | Reprint edition (Aperture, September 1, 1992), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Gorilla recounts in remarkable color photographs the strange and powerful story of the last few hundred members of a nearly extinct species: the famed mountain gorillas of the Virunga volcanoes.

Golden Shadows, Flying Hooves

By George B. Schaller

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9780226736501 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1989), cover price $20.50

Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya

By George B. Schaller

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9780226736518 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1989), cover price $23.00

Stones of Silence: Journeys in the Himalaya

Schaller's account of his and others' long struggle to save the fascinating, increasingly rare wildlife of the Himalayas combines high adventure, close description, and scientific dedication

By George B. Schaller

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9780670671403 | Viking Pr, March 1, 1980, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Schaller's account of his and others' long struggle to save the fascinating, increasingly rare wildlife of the Himalayas combines high adventure, close description, and scientific dedication

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9780226736464 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $16.95

The Giant Pandas of Wolong

Discusses the conservation, history, geographic distribution, activity patterns, feeding habits, and social behavior of Chinese giant pandas.

By Hu Jinchu, Zhu Jing, George B. Schaller (editor) and Pan Wenshi

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9780226736433 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 1985, cover price $87.50 | About this edition: Discusses the conservation, history, geographic distribution, activity patterns, feeding habits, and social behavior of Chinese giant pandas.

The Deer and the Tiger: A Study of Wildlife in India

Product Description: The Deer and the Tiger is Schaller's detailed account of the ecology and behavior of Bengal tigers and four species of the hoofed mammals on which they prey, based on his observations in India's Kanha National Park."This book is a treasure house of biological information and it is also a delight to read...read more

By George B. Schaller

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9780226736310 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, August 15, 1984), cover price $47.50 | About this edition: The Deer and the Tiger is Schaller's detailed account of the ecology and behavior of Bengal tigers and four species of the hoofed mammals on which they prey, based on his observations in India's Kanha National Park.

Wonders of Lions

Records the authors' three-year findings on the habits and characteristics of the lion within the pride and the nomadic lion in the Serengeti National Park

By George B. Schaller

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9780396074090 | Putnam Pub Group, April 1, 1977, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Discusses the characteristics and habits of the lions living in Serengeti National Park and their interrelationship with other wildlife there.

Serengeti Lion a Study of Predator-Prey Relations

Examines the evolutionary development, natural habits, behavior, and social organization of Tanzania's predatory animals and analyzes their effect on other wildlife populations in the region

By George B. Schaller

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9780226736402, titled "The Serengeti Lion: A Study of Predator-prey Relations" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 15, 1976), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Examines the evolutionary development, natural habits, behavior, and social organization of Tanzania's predatory animals and analyzes their effect on other wildlife populations in the region

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