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Wild Things, Wild Places

Adventurous Tales of Wildlife and Conservation on Planet Earth

by Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander
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A moving, inspiring, personal look at the vastly changing world of wildlife on planet earth as a result of human incursion, and the crucial work of animal and bird preservation across the globe being done by scientists, field biologists, zoologists, environmentalists, and conservationists. From a longtime, much-admired activist, impassioned wildlife proponent and conservationist, former chairperson of the National Endowment for the Arts, four time Academy Award nominee, and Tony Award and two-time Emmy Award-winning actress.
In Wild Things, Wild Places, Jane Alexander movingly, with a clear eye and a knowing, keen grasp of the issues and on what is being done in conservation and the worlds of science to help the planet's most endangered species to stay alive and thrive, writes of her steady and fervent immersion into the worlds of wildlife conservation, of her coming to know the scientists throughout the world—to her, the prophets in the wilderness—who are steeped in this work, of her travels with them—and on her own—to the most remote and forbidding areas of the world as they try to save many species, including ourselves.

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    September 27, 2016

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      • ISBN: 9780735287006
      • File size: 312202 KB
      • Duration: 10:50:25

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Part wildlife memoir, part birder's journal, part celebrity biography, Jane Alexander's personal story about visiting natural places around the world covers a lot of ground. Alexander has been involved in biodiversity preservation, largely through New York's Wildlife Conservation Society, since the 1970s. She has visited Madagascar, the Galapagos Islands, Myanmar, and Bhutan, to name just a few exotic places. Alexander reads her own work. Although an accomplished stage and screen actor, she is inclined to monotone. Like many of us, she seems to have learned her reading aloud skills at bedtime. Still, her pronunciation is always clear, and her pacing is excellent. Alexander mourns the hunting and habitat destruction currently driving so many of the world's most unique and beautiful species to extinction. F.C. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 6, 2016
      Veteran actress Alexander’s latest offering is an impassioned if measured narrative of her explorations of little-known corners of the Earth with an eye toward celebration and conservation. A longtime nature enthusiast and conservation activist, Alexander (Command Performance) tracks her varied trips to distant locales, describing in intimate detail elements in ecosystems that may have been lost already or may yet be saved. On her adventure in the Andes of Peru, for example, she and her team delivered 5,000 polylepis trees to people who live in the high mountain community of Abra Malaga, answering a desperate need for replenishment of tree growth for heating fires—but a secondary motivation included creating a sustainable environment for the disappearing Royal Cinclodes bird, which depends on the polylepis tree for shelter. A tone of alarm at points arises from the otherwise measured cadence of the narration: “We barely have a generation, maybe 20 years, to slow carbon emission... before the results are catastrophic.” But the real force of the book resides in the author’s articulation of her exhilaration of the wonders of nature (particularly her love of birds) and her willingness to ford streams, slash through jungles, and scale mountains to defend it.

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