作者 戴维·奎曼（David Quammen），美国科学、自然和旅行作家，《国家地理》（National Geographic）特约撰稿人。出版了十余部作品，其中《渡渡鸟之歌》（The Song Of The Dodo）获约翰•巴勒斯奖。此外，他还获得过美国艺术与文学学院奖和美国国际笔会颁发的散文艺术奖，以及三次美国国家杂志奖。 译者 刘炎林，北京大学动物学博士，长期从事青藏高原大型兽类调查和保护工作；现供职民间环保机构“猫盟CFCA”，致力于调查和保护中国的野生猫科动物。出版过野外调查记录《发自荒野的情书》，译有《濒临灭绝：气候变化对生物多样性的影响》。

作者 戴维·奎曼（David Quammen），美国科学、自然和旅行作家，《国家地理》（National Geographic）特约撰稿人。出版了十余部作品，其中《渡渡鸟之歌》（The Song Of The Dodo）获约翰•巴勒斯奖。此外，他还获得过美国艺术与文学学院奖和美国国际笔会颁发的散文艺术奖，以及三次美国国家杂志奖。 译者 刘炎林，北京大学动物学博士，长期从事青藏高原大型兽类调查和保护工作；现供职民间环保机构“猫盟CFCA”，致力于调查和保护中国的野生猫科动物。出版过野外调查记录《发自荒野的情书》，译有《濒临灭绝：气候变化对生物多样性的影响》。

For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals have always shared the landscape with humans. Since the dawn of time our ec...(展开全部)

For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermedi...(展开全部)

For millennia, nature's biggest and fiercest predators have tormented mankind. The knowledge and fear of the existence of these ferocious man-eaters is forever in the back of our minds, looming in our worst nightmares. Millions of humans have suffered attacks by predators on land and at sea. Yet animals have always shared the landscape with humans. Since the dawn of time our ec...(展开全部)

作者 戴维·奎曼（David Quammen），美国科学、自然和旅行作家，《国家地理》（National Geographic）特约撰稿人。出版了十余部作品，其中《渡渡鸟之歌》（The Song Of The Dodo）获约翰•巴勒斯奖。此外，他还获得过美国艺术与文学学院奖和美国国际笔会颁发的散文艺术奖，以及三次美国国家杂志奖。 译者 刘炎林，北京大学动物学博士，长期从事青藏高原大型兽类调查和保护工作；现供职民间环保机构“猫盟CFCA”，致力于调查和保护中国的野生猫科动物。出版过野外调查记录《发自荒野的情书》，译有《濒临灭绝：气候变化对生物多样性的影响》。

作者 戴维·奎曼（David Quammen），美国科学、自然和旅行作家，《国家地理》（National Geographic）特约撰稿人。出版了十余部作品，其中《渡渡鸟之歌》（The Song Of The Dodo）获约翰•巴勒斯奖。此外，他还获得过美国艺术与文学学院奖和美国国际笔会颁发的散文艺术奖，以及三次美国国家杂志奖。 译者 刘炎林，北京大学动物学博士，长期从事青藏高原大型兽类调查和保护工作；现供职民间环保机构“猫盟CFCA”，致力于调查和保护中国的野生猫科动物。出版过野外调查记录《发自荒野的情书》，译有《濒临灭绝：气候变化对生物多样性的影响》。

For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermedi...(展开全部)

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction i...(展开全部)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: H. INFLUENCE OF ENVIRONMENT UPON HUMAN TYPES After having seen that the high estimate of our civilization does not necessarily imply that the carriers of this civilization have an anatomical organi...(展开全部)