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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
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Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind Paperback - 2004

by David Quammen

Quammen explores the natures of man-eating predators and the variety of human attitudes toward them through sources as diverse as prehistoric cave paintings, "Beowulf," and the "Alien" movies.


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For millennia, lions, tigers, and their man-eating kin have kept our dark, scary forests dark and scary, and their predatory majesty has been the stuff of folklore. But by the year 2150 big predators may only exist on the other side of glass barriers and chain-link fences. Their gradual disappearance is changing the very nature of our existence. We no longer occupy an intermediate position on the food chain; instead we survey it invulnerably from above--so far above that we are in danger of forgetting that we even belong to an ecosystem.

Casting his expert eye over the rapidly diminishing areas of wilderness where predators still reign, the award-winning author of The Song of the Dodo and The Tangled Tree examines the fate of lions in India's Gir forest, of saltwater crocodiles in northern Australia, of brown bears in the mountains of Romania, and of Siberian tigers in the Russian Far East. In the poignant and troublesome ferocity of these embattled creatures, we recognize something primeval deep within us, something in danger of vanishing forever.

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Great and terrible flesh-eating beasts have always shared landscape with humans.

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  • Title Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
  • Author David Quammen
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
  • Date September 2004
  • ISBN 9780393326093 / 0393326098
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.83 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Ecology
  • Library of Congress subjects Endangered species, Human-animal relationships
  • Dewey Decimal Code 591.65

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  • New York Times, 10/10/2004, Page 26
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