Yeti The Ecology of a Mystery

by Taylor, Daniel C.

• ISBN13: 9780199469383
• ISBN10: 0199469385
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-10-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Daniel C. Taylor, Founder, Future Generations Organizations Worldwide.

Daniel Taylor has been engaged in social change and conservation for four decades with a focus on building international cooperation to achieve ambitious projects. He founded the nine Future Generations organizations worldwide (including the accredited Future Generations Graduate School). He also founded and led The Mountain Institute and its worldwide programmes. In 1985, after providing the scientific explanation for the yeti, he led creating Nepal's Makalu-Barun National Park, then, in close partnership with the Tibet Autonomous Region, China's Qomolangma (Everest) National Nature Preserve and Four Great Rivers Nature Preserve protecting one-seventh of China's forest reserves.

Taylor is one of the synthesizers of the SEED-SCALE method, an understanding of social change initiated by a UNICEF task force he co-chaired from 1992 to 1995.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Arriving at the Yeti's Jungle
Chapter 2 - In the Yeti's Jungle
Chapter 3 - The Bear Mystery
Chapter 4 - My First Yetis
Chapter 5 - Yeti Expeditions
Chapter 6 - Footprints Melting into Rivers
Chapter 7 - Towards the Barun Jungles
Chapter 8 - Our Evidence Meets Science
Chapter 9 - Evidence Slipping Away
Chapter 10 - From Whence Knowledge
Chapter 11 - The King and His Zoo
Chapter 12 - Back in the Barun
Chapter 13 - Bears and Bioresilience
Chapter 14 - Entrapping the Yeti
Chapter 15 - Discovery
Afterword
About the Author