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Where the Wild Things Were: Travels of a Conservationist
Where the Wild Things Were Travels of a Conservationist Author:Stanley Johnson In this volume of collected travel and environmental journalism, Stanley travels from Exmoor to Ecuador, India to Istanbul, and across many other routes. He is charged at by mountain gorillas, encounters pandas, tigers, blue-footed boobies and the elusive blue whale. Dauntless, he climbs Kilimanjaro, catches cold at the Glastonbury festival, tra... more »cks down his ancestors in Turkey and meets legendary environmentalists such as Jane Goodall.
Behind the infectious Johnson humour, there lies the deep passion of a man who has spent his life in search of wild places and wild animals, and is committed to their defence. Reading this book, it is impossible not to catch the thrill.« less