Jacqueline Geschickter

FOREWORD I vividly remember my excitement as a child each time an explorer visited our home. As I listened to one fascinating story after another, I came to see geography as an African plain full of wildlife, or the teeming, fragile web of life in a rain forest, or a polar region where only...

OR MEand I suspect for almost everyonemammals appeal deeply to the imagination. One of my favorites is the elephant. It's hard to imagine that such a massive beast can manipulate its trunk to pick up a tiny peanut and yet be able to heft a thousand-pound log of teak with obvious ease! In Sri Lanka,...