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William DeBuys

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1) River of Traps: A New Mexico Mountain Life

Author

deBuys, William

Publisher

Trinity University Press

Pub. Date

2016

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

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New Mexico's Sangre de Cristo mountains are a place where two cultures — Hispanic and Anglo — meet. They're also the place where three men meet: William deBuys, a young writer; Alex Harris, a young photographer; and Jacobo Romero, an old farmer. When Harris and deBuys move to New Mexico in the 1970s, Romero is the neighbor who befriends them and becomes their teacher. With the tools of simple labor — shovel and axe, irony and humor...

2) The trail to Kanjiroba: rediscovering Earth in an age of loss

Author

DeBuys, William

Publisher

Seven Stories Press

Pub. Date

[2021]

Language

English

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"In 2016 and 2018 acclaimed author and conservationist William deBuys joined extended medical expeditions into Upper Dolpo, a remote, ethnically Tibetan region of northwestern Nepal, to provide basic medical services to the residents of the region. Having written about climate change and species extinction, deBuys went on those journeys seeking solace. He needed to find a constructive way of living with the discouraging implications of what he had...

3) The last unicorn: a search for one of Earth's rarest creatures

Author

DeBuys, William

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

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Language

English

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"In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with beautiful long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to western science -- a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in 50 years. Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it...