Predators I Have Known

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2011
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An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet's most ferocious and fascinating predators.
Over the last forty years, New York Times-bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature's most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Known is a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.

Synopsis

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet's most ferocious and fascinating predators.

Over the last forty years, New York Times-bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature's most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Known is a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.

$17.43

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 206
Publisher: Open Road E-Riginal
Published: 22 Feb 2011
ISBN 10: 1453258256
ISBN 13: 9781453258255
Book Overview: An adventurous travel memoir from acclaimed Science Fiction author, this non-fiction book is fast paced and an exciting look at some of the most interesting animals and places on the planet. For travellers looking to get off the beaten track, this book introduces readers to some of the more exciting places on earth and the writers experiences with the unknown.

This is a book for fans of the author but also travel memoir readers.

Author Bio

The New York Times-bestselling author of more than 110 books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction and fantasy. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA, and first found success in 1968 when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. In 1972 he wrote his first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first in his Pip and Flinx series featuring the Humanx Commonwealth, a universe he has explored in more than twenty-five novels. Foster also created the Spellsinger series and has written dozens of bestselling film novelizations, as well as the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. An avid world traveler, he chronicles some of his own adventures in the wild in his memoir Predators I Have Known (2011). Foster lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.