Gillis is an American comic book writer best known for his work on Doctor Strange for Marvel Comics. Peter has also written hundreds of additional works, among them the screenplays for the animated adaptations of The Last Unicorn and The Lord of the Rings, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, a libretto, and numerous short stories, songs, and poems. Subsequent works include the perennially poplular travelogue I See By My Outfit, his second novel and fantasy classic The Last Unicorn, and "Two Hearts," a Last Unicorn sequel that won both the Hugo and Nebula awards in 2006. He published his first novel, A Fine and Private Place, at the age of nineteen. He was born in New York City in 1939 and raised in the Bronx, surrounded by education and the arts. Beagle is a novelist, screenwriter, and poet, and an icon of fantasy fiction. You'll find yourself trying not to skip to the end to find out whether they're successful.Peter S. The team's quest to find the saola lasts nearly the entire book. It's rare to be introduced to something entirely new, and deBuys communicates to the reader the awe and excitement that he feels, making this book an intriguing story, even for the non-naturalists among us.
You'll also become enchanted with the ethereal saola and spend time tracking down the few clear images available of them online. You'll be entranced by the portrayals of a very isolated culture and its peoples, the way they live their lives in a swiftly expanding world and the realities faced by the animals and plants that share that world. His descriptions are honest and build into page-turning tension for the reader.
In addition to deBuys' engaging chronicle of his time in the wilds, the interspersed histories and scientific explanations provide a well-balanced narrative. No easy task, between untrustworthy and ill-tempered hired guides, Vietnamese poachers, rapidly dwindling financial reserves, an inhospitable environment, and deBuys' (self-admitted) past-prime physical state. The parallels between the saola and the mythical unicorn don't stop just with the horns you're pretty much just as likely to see one as the other in the wild.Īnd that's exactly what scientists William deBuys and William Rochibaud, along with a team of Lao naturalists, set out to do-to record and observe a saola in its native habitat.
The animal, an elusive resident of a remote, protected mountainous region between Laos and Vietnam, was unknown to western science prior to May 1992 when naturists saw its horns mounted in an indigenous hunter's hut. The saola is not a unicorn, but it might be the closest thing we have on earth to the mythical creature. Understandably then, I was quickly captivated by this tale of exploration, endangered animals, cross-border poaching, and a real, flesh-and-blood species. I'll also admit to a small (okay, large) obsession with unicorns. I'll admit to a small obsession with Southeast Asia.
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