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Daniel Taylor-Ide |
SOMETHING HIDDEN BEHIND THE RANGES A Himalayan Quest |
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SOMETHING
HIDDEN BEHIND THE RANGES
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A search through the remote reaches of the Himalaya for traces of the
yeti yields new discoveries in natural science.
"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges — Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!" —Rudyard Kipling from "The Explorer"
SOMETHING HIDDEN BEHIND THE RANGES mixes travel, adventure, and nature writing in a gripping tale of the Himalaya, its peoples and its ecosystem. Since his childhood in India, Daniel Taylor-Ide has been fascinated with the mystery of the yeti, or abominable snowman. Throughout his life he has searched for clues of its existence. Along the way he has risked life and limb in remote mountain reaches, led a search for the elusive Himalayan tree bear (previously unknown in the West), established wilderness parks in both Nepal and China, and discovered traces of lost peoples in the mountains of Nepal. In this vivid page-turner — featuring American explorers, government officials, and Nepalese royalty — the author tells these stories and invites us to share in the life of a modern-day explorer. With humor and insight into the rapidly changing world of the Himalayan liderness, Taylor-Ide takes the reader on a journey through the jungles and up the icy cliffs of the Himalaya, into the royal halls of the king of Nepal, and through the archives of the Smithsonian, to an amazing conclusion. "Yeti, Abominable Snowman, Bigfoot. Taylor-Ide wanted to know more about that
inscrutible denizon of the snowy wastes.... Together with his family,
he camps out in the wild, uninhabited valleys deep in Nepal, where, indeed,
he finds footprints almost immediately. But then the focus of the story
changes.... Taylor-Ide begins to suspect that the tracks were made by
what may be a new species of tree-living black bear.... Slowly it dawns
on him that more important than the tree bear, more important than the
Yeti, is protecting the wondrously rare environment that he has been trekking
through, so that the cloud leapards, musk deer — who knows, maybe the
Abominable One — still have a place to live.... Taylor-Ide has been where
few have tread and emerges with a fascinating portrait."
"The author makes new discoveries and explanations and has more than a few adventures.... The research is extensive and the anecdotes about life in the remote jungles and mountains of India and Nepal are fascinating. This combination of unusual natural history and Taylor-Ide's own life story make the book more than just a chronicle of yeti searches." "A beautifully written account of Taylor-Ide's search for the elusive
yeti and of a world where nature and myth are still at home. His quest
is something we all need to take up if we are to survive the civilization
that has not quite overrun the earth — as long as something wild and hidden
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DANIEL TAYLOR-IDE travels widely in the U.S., India, and Nepal, working
for the United Nations, the Dalai Lama of Tibet, and the government of Nepal.
He was knighted by the king of Nepal for his efforts. He founded the Woodlands
Mountain Institute, an organization dedicated to sustainable development
planning for mountain regions and peoples; is the president of Future Generations
Inc.; (www.future.org)
and leads a research group at Johns Hopkins University in the School of
Public Hygiene and Public Health. Daniel lives on Spruce Knob Mountain in
West Virginia with his wife, Jennifer, and three children, Jesse, Tara,
and Luke.
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