Eric Dinerstein: 7 books

Book cover of Tigerland and Other Unintended Destinations
by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013

In 1972, Eric Dinerstein was in film school at Northwestern University, with few thoughts of nature, let alone tiger-filled jungles at the base of the Himalayas or the antelope-studded Serengeti plain. Yet thanks to some inspiring teachers and the squawk of a little green heron that awakened him to...
Book cover of Discovering Big Cat Country

Discovering Big Cat Country

On the trail of tigers and snow leopards

by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

With their elusive and solitary nature, tigers and snow leopards are a challenge for even the mseasoned field biologists to track and study. Yet scientist and conservation leader Eric Dinerstein began his career in the heart of Nepal’s tiger country and the perilous Himalayan slopes of the snow...
Book cover of The Return of the Unicorns

The Return of the Unicorns

The Natural History and Conservation of the Greater One-Horned Rhinoceros

by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2003

Beginning in 1984, Eric Dinerstein led a team directly responsible for the recovery of the greater one-horned rhinoceros in the Royal Chitwan National Park in Nepal, where the population had once declined to as few as 100 rhinos. The Return of the Unicorns is an account of what it takes to save endangered...
Book cover of The Kingdom of Rarities
by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013

When you look out your window, why are you so much more likely to see a robin or a sparrow than a Kirtland's warbler or a California condor? Why are some animals naturally rare and others so abundant? The quest to find and study seldom-seen jaguars and flamboyant Andean cocks-of-the-rock is as alluring...
Book cover of What Elephants Know
by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016

Abandoned in the jungle of the Nepalese Borderlands, two-year-old Nandu is found living under the protective watch of a pack of wild dogs. From his mysterious beginnings, fate delivers him to the King's elephant stable, where he is raised by unlikely parents—the wise head of the stable, Subba-sahib,...
Book cover of A Circle of Elephants

A Circle of Elephants

A companion novel

by Eric Dinerstein
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2019

From the author of What Elephants Know, a 2017 ALA Notable Children's Book and the 2017 South Asia Book Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature award winner, comes this stunning companion novel about the complex relationship between people and nature and the harsh realities of life in the...
Book cover of Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar
by Michele L. Thieme, Robin Abell, Neil Burgess
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005

As part of a global effort to identify those areas where conservation measures are needed murgently, World Wildlife Fund has assembled teams of scientists to conduct ecological assessments of all seven continents. Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar is the latest contribution, presenting...
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