Predators I Have Known

by Foster, Alan Dean

• ISBN13: 9781453258255
• ISBN10: 1453258256
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-02-22
• Publisher: Open Road Media

Summary

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet's most ferocious and fascinating predators Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature's most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Knownis a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.

Author Biography

The New York Times–bestselling author of more than one hundred ten books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA, but first found success in 1968 when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. In 1972 he wrote his first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first in his Pip and Flinx series featuring the Humanx Commonwealth, a universe he has explored in more than twenty-five books. He also created the Spellsinger series, numerous film novelizations, and the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. An avid world traveler, he lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• INTRODUCTION
• I. TYGER, TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT...
  • East Central India, April 2003
• II. THINGS YOU NEVER FORGET
  • South Australia, January 1991
• III. FELIX
  • Mount Etjo, Namibia, November 1993
• IV. THE CUTE LITTLE OCTOPUS AND THE HOMICIDAL SHELL
  • East Central Australia, November 1989
• V. JEALOUS ANTS, MILLIONS OF ANTS, AND REALLY, REALLY BIG...ANTS
  • Southeastern Peru, May 1987
  • Northeastern Gabon, January 2007
  • Southeastern Peru, July 1998
• VI. SHARKS I HAVEN’T JUMPED
  • Bismarck Sea, September 1997
  • West Australia, April 1992
• VII. FLAT TIRES, OLD CANVAS, AND BIG CATS
  • Tanzania, July 1984
  • South Africa, May 2002
  • Tanzania, August 1984
  • Mount Etjo, Namibia, October 1993
• VIII. MEANWHILE, SAFELY BACK HOME...
  • Prescott, Arizona, Anytime
• IX. EYES ON THE TRAIL
  • Central Gabon, January 2007
• X. EVER WONDER HOW WE TASTE?
  • Papua New Guinea, October 1995
  • Tanzania, July 1984
  • Southeastern Peru, May 1987: A Sartorial Digression
• XI. EATING, YAWNING, AND COITUS INTERRUPTUS
  • Northern Botswana, October 1993
• XII. AIR JAWS
  • South Africa, June 2002
• XIII. DRACULA IS A MUTE
  • Northern Borneo, September 2010
• XIV. TEENAGE KILLER NINJA OTTERS
  • Southwestern Brazil, May 2000
• CONCLUSION
• VIDEO APPENDIX