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From one of our most gifted writers on the natural world comes a stunning exploration of a unique landscape and the improbable and endangered animal that makes its home there.
Rick Bass first made a name for himself as a writer and seeker of rare, iconic animals, including the grizzlies and wolves of the American West. Now he’s off on a new, far-flung adventure in the Namib of southwest Africa on the trail of another fascinating, vulnerable species. The black rhino is a three-thousand-pound, squinty-eyed giant that sports three-foot-long dagger horns, lives off poisonous plants, and goes for days without water.
Human intervention and cutting-edge conservation saved the rhinos—for now—from the brink of extinction brought on by poaching and war. Against the backdrop of one of the most ancient and harshest terrains on earth, Bass, with his characteristic insight and grace, probes the complex relationship between humans and nature and meditates on our role as both destroyer and savior.
In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen’s The Tree Where Man Was Born, Bass captures a haunting slice of Africa, especially of the “black” rhinos that glow ghostly white in the gleaming sun.
- Sales Rank: #1829922 in Books
- Published on: 2012-08-07
- Released on: 2012-08-07
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.30" h x 5.70" w x 8.30" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
Review
"A well-known nature writer travels to the Namib Desert, ‘one of the oldest unchanged landscapes on earth’ . . . an exciting adventure."
—Kirkus
From the Inside Flap
From one of our most gifted writers on the natural world comes a stunning exploration of a unique landscape and the improbable and endangered animal that makes its home there.
Rick Bass first made a name for himself as a writer and seeker of rare, iconic animals, including the grizzlies and wolves of the American West. Now he’s off on a new, far-flung adventure in the Namib of southwest Africa on the trail of another fascinating, vulnerable species. The black rhino is a three-thousand-pound, squinty-eyed giant that sports three-foot-long dagger horns, lives off poisonous plants, and goes for days without water.
Human intervention and cutting-edge conservation saved the rhinos—for now—from the brink of extinction brought on by poaching and war. Against the backdrop of one of the most ancient and harshest terrains on earth, Bass, with his characteristic insight and grace, probes the complex relationship between humans and nature and meditates on our role as both destroyer and savior.
In the tradition of Peter Matthiessen’s The Tree Where Man Was Born, Bass captures a haunting slice of Africa, especially of the “black” rhinos that glow ghostly white in the gleaming sun.
From the Back Cover
Praise for Rick Bass
“Probably no American writer since Hemingway has written about man-in-nature more beautifully or powerfully than Rick Bass.”—Dallas Morning News
“In Bass’s chest beats the hearts of both the poet and the hunter; he is lyrical and unsentimental, and that rare combination whets a sharp edge on his prose.”—Chicago Sun-Times
“Bass captures quiet human truths amidst his astonishing portraits of life in the wilderness.”—People
“If any writer can awaken a taste for the outdoors, Bass can.”—Detroit Free Press
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16 of 19 people found the following review helpful.
Big rhinos, but a fuzzy picture...
By John P. Jones III
Namibia. Former German South-West Africa. A big, arid country, with few people, almost half of them living within 50 km of the Angolan border (or, at least that was the distribution in the early `80's.) It was Thomas Pynchon, of all people, who first introduced me to the country, involving the ultimate in euphemisms, the German "settlement" of it, in his masterpiece, Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition). As for Rick Bass, I picked up his book The New Wolves at the Nature Conservancy in Silver City, NM, read it, and thought it worthwhile in covering the efforts to re-introducing the grey wolf to the southwest. Finally, I was able to tour almost all of Namibia, including the Etosha Pan, in the early `80's, with a camper, when the country was still a South African "protectorate." So, when this book popped up on my Vine list, the confluence of the previous three antecedences quickly led to a "Please send."
Bass lives in northwestern Montana, and relates his fight to prevent the extinction of the local grizzle bear population to the similar fight to prevent the extinction of the black rhino in Namibia. Bass can wax eloquently about the starry desert nights, the sudden transitions from day to night, and the vastness of this largely uninhabited (in part, thanks to the above mentioned Germans) desert. Bass is a geologist by training, and has an eye both for the topography and the rock formations. The Etosha National Park, and "Damaraland," where the rhinos are primarily located, are in northwestern Namibia. His primary guide is Mike Hearn, a field director with the "Save the Rhino Trust," which was founded by Bythe Loutit, of Natal. He notes, properly in my opinion, that even poor African countries, such as Namibia, at least seem to be going forward, in contrast to America, which, at best, is only "treading water."
But I had a lot of problems with this book. Most importantly, there is the timeline. One has the impression that these events have just occurred; only in the last page of the acknowledgement does one learn that both Bythe Loutit and Mike Hearn died in 2005, shortly after Bass' visit. So, why the seven-year delay in publication? No explanation is offered, so, how accurate are the details of his desert and rhino depictions? AIDS is a real problem in Africa, for sure, and yes, there is the usual caveat that this is an "advanced copy," but I was stunned when Bass claimed that this disease is killing more than 125,000 people each year, out of a population of 2 million (p. 115). That's 6.25% of the population, each year. But the actual numbers, for 2003, prior to his visit, per Wikipedia, is 16,000, and in 2009, per the CDC, is 6,700. It truly is an incredible error that calls into question any other statistic offered. There is also a lot of "fuzzy" new age thinking expressed: "No one can imagine accurately the future. We can only follow" (p.145). "Time is both particle and wave; surely it tilts, cants, stretches and compresses like the compounds, and even the continents themselves" (p.147). And in describing a rhino: "Her eyes are filled with intelligence, and with anger but not quite menace; though too, she appears to be possibly considering or building toward menace."
And then I had a lot of problems with what they were actually doing in the desert, chasing the rhinos, seemingly with no purpose. They take only one vehicle (shouldn't there be two?), without sufficient water. Do they not utilize a GPS, and plan the trip, as one would do if scuba diving? Seemingly not. And why, why are they approaching so close to the rhinos, in danger of being charged and trampled to death? No explanation is ever offered. If 40 plus yards keeps one out of their vision, why not stay 50 yards, and use binoculars to do any required observations. It just seemed like one of those "thrill" sports to get as close as you can, without purpose. Finally, there are all the "politics" of environmental organizations, and the "true believers" that staff them that was never addressed. I "googled" the "Save the Rhino Trust" and got two separate organizations, both with "Mike Hearn" scholarships. Now THERE, that must be a story about colliding egos.
A wonderful topic, poorly addressed. 3-stars.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Can't be the best book on rhinos out there!
By Eric B. Borgman
The Black Rhinos of Namibia: Searching for Survivors in the African Desert by Rick Bass can't be the best book on rhinos out there. I found it to be somewhat of a disappontment. Bass has a lot to say but not enough on rhinos and I found it disjointed and rather rambling. I hate giving bad reviews to books like this because so much work goes into writing but ultimately I didn't really care for the whole of the book.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
a moving book
By M. Hyman
This book chronicles a visit the author takes to a remote portion of Africa, in order to see black rhinos. The population had once dropped close to extinction, victims of horn hunting and caught in the cross hairs of wars, but through efforts of conservationists are slowly recovering despite ongoing poaching and habitat destruction.
The author has a curious writing style - it is very lyrical, and at times that makes reading the book beautiful, and at other times it almost gets in the way, as if the language, slowly dripping from each paragraph like a condensing dew within some remote cave, twisting around thoughts of nature, biology and religion, somehow take us away from the immediacy of the experience, and render it more internal, more ethereal, and almost distant. In short, I would have preferred a bit more facts and less philosophizing. What was the history of the area? What was the biological evolution of the Rhino?
At the same time, the writing is quite pretty, and more importantly, conveys a real sense of beauty in the area of Africa. I found the description of the feeling of the landscape to be more moving in many ways than the descriptions of the animals themselves, although the overall plight of environmental destruction is quite chilling. The author ties in a similar struggle with extinction of the bears in Montana where he lives, and in a way I also wish he circled back more to their situation as well.
Overall, a good and moving naturelogue dealing an important topic of how humankind is wreaking havoc on the world, and the quiet and complex beauty of nature. I would have liked a bit more science, a bit more fact, a little more follow up, but still quite a good read.
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