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The Soul of the Rhino: A Nepali Adventure with Kings and Elephant Drivers, Billionaires and Bureaucrats, Shamans and Scientists, and the Indian Rhinoceros
Hemanta Mishra, with Jim Ottaway Jr.
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A native Nepali, Hemanta Mishra received a scholarship in 1969 to study wildlife management at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. After graduating, he returned to Nepal, where he combined his knowledge of both Western science and Asian culture to advance nature conservation in the Himalayan region—and, most particularly, to save the Indian rhinoceros from extinction. The Soul of the Rhino is a fascinating, moving, and entertaining account of Mishra's phenomenal efforts to stabilize the rhino's habitat and bolster its population. His encounters with "kings and elephant drivers, billionaires and bureaucrats, shamans and scientists"—as well as his interactions with his beloved rhinos—will keep nature-lovers spellbound. Full of ecological insights, Mishra's unique memoir presents an intriguing portrait of "a prehistoric Asian unicorn that still mystifies modern man."
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