The Last Unicorn - A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth In , in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. It turned out to be a living species new to. · An expedition to find a live unicorn would certainly seem foolhardy. Fortunately, in his latest book, The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures, William deBuys attempts a slightly more achievable aim: accompanying conservation biologist William Robichaud to the Annamite Mountains on the Laos-Vietnam border in search of the elusive saola. · The Last Unicorn A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures. William deBuys. • 5 Ratings by a Westerner in the wild when Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in central Laos. The Last Unicorn chronicles deBuys's journey deep into one of the.
In The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures, author William deBuys isn't the one to break the saola's elusive winning streak. The animal itself never crosses the authors path as he treks through the Laotian jungles. Instead, deBuys, accompanied by wildlife biologist Bill Robichaud, seek to explore the haunts of one of the. William deBuys traverses the wilds in search of proof that the saola, a creature rare as the unicorn, still exists. His testimony of heartbreak and hope shines brightest when he's recounting personal experiences. Every step of his journey is fraught with thorny truths and devastating facts about mankind's carelessness. 'The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures' by William DeBuys (Little, Brown).
"The Last Unicorn" is DeBuys first hand account of his journey to a remote corner of the earth in search of one of the rarest creatures on the planet, the saola. "Saola is this underdog, It doesn't hurt anybody. Nobody gains anything by killing it. It doesn't go eat crops, and it doesn't kill any domestic animals. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, The Last Unicorn is deBuys’s look deep into one of the world’s most remote places. As in the pursuit of the unicorn, the journey ultimately becomes a quest for the essence of wildness in nature, and an encounter with beauty. Buy The Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures by William DeBuys online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 2 editions - starting at $
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