• ISBN13: 9780199469383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: September 16, 2017
• Pages: 416
• Original Price: INR 795.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 580 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Holism

AS it turned out, young Daniel never outgrew the enchantment of the mysterious Yeti, the Abominable Snowman. His search for the enigmatic creature of Himalayan legends spread over many decades: from 1956 until 2015, Daniel C. Taylor visited almost all valley systems in his quest to explain the ‘Yeti’s footprints’. But to his surprise, solving the footprint mystery did not answer the Yeti question. As his quest evolved, Taylor went on to create two massive national parks around Mount Everest.Equipped with abundant knowledge of the Himalaya, Taylor tells a story that is captivating and full of surprises. He looks back at his exploration of the 2,000-mile-wide Himalaya and talks about bio resilience as a parallel dynamic to biodiversity, thus widening the scope of our understanding of ecology.Yeti: The Ecology of a Mystery is the extraordinary story of one man’s conservation impact and what it means for people to be part of the wild in today’s increasingly tamed world.

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.