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Out of the Cage - Dr. Gary Shapiro
A recently divorced graduate student is offered an opportunity of a lifetime. Asked to teach an orangutan sign language to solve a murder, he finds himself in an exotic land to discover a world of ex-captive red-haired great apes of Borneo who are learning to return to the wild.
Out of the Cage recounts Shapiro's studies and adventures from field notes and memory to demonstrate the many otherwise human interactions he has had with the unique orangutan personalities he has been fortunate enough to encounter.
Orangutan personhood, great ape rights, and the many moral conundrums that the scientific community has largely ignored weigh heavy on Shapiro's mind and heart as he reflects upon his experiences with those noble persons.
Peer Reviewed By
Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder of the Jane Goodall Institute & UN Messenger of Peace
Gregory F. Tague, author of An Ape Ethic and the Question of Personhood
Caroline Gabel, Shared Earth Foundation
Ed Begley Jr., actor and environmentalist
Marc Bekoff, Ph.D., The Emotional Lives of Animals (2024)
Additional Information
Published : October 19, 2024
Pages : 260
ISBN : 978-1-956389-13-5 / 978-1-956389-10-4 / 978-1-956389-14-2
BISAC : BIO000000 / SCI070050 / POL044000
LCCN : 2024931705
Size : US Trade (6×9)
  
The Art of Living Dangerously - Richard Bangs
In 1973, Richard Bangs founded Sobek Expeditions, the original and now the largest adventure travel company in the world, with over a million clients guided since its beginning. But this is not just a story of an unusual company, one that profoundly transformed the way we travel and experience the world. It presents true stories, both perilous and awe-inspiring, from the full array of adventure travel: trekking, climbing, sailing, diving, adventure cruising, kayaking, back-country skiing, mountaineering, biking, cultural immersions, canyoneering, and more. Sobek pioneered scores of adventures, from trekking in the Himalayas, to cruising the Galapagos and Antarctica, to first descents of some eighty rivers around the world. The author personally led thirty-five first river descents, capsizing on six continents (a unique, albeit dubious, distinction), and organized and led the first trips into North Korea, Libya, Yemen, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, New Guinea, Iran, and even China back in 1978. Sobek clients have included Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Mick Jagger, Barry Diller, and Daryl Hannah. It is the shadow company behind National Geographic Adventures, New York Times Active Journeys, and Smithsonian Expeditions. This book traces fifty years of adventure travel and how it has evolved through times of war and peace, terrorism, the rise of the internet, the pandemic, and the first virtual expeditions.
Three Energy Literacy Books by Ronald Stein, P.E.
  
  
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2 Hopeful Environmental Books by Jon Biemer
  
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