{"product_id":"2940158631641","title":"Somewhere East of Eden","description":"From the author of Half Way Down an African Moon comes an evocative account of random journeys undertaken in Africa over the last thirty years. Written at a time when the natural world everywhere is being heedlessly plundered and exploited as never before, these recollections – impassioned, comic, ironic and critical by turn – are a reminder that in everything but multi-national corporate cupidity, the damage may well be irreparable. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether drifting in a fishing boat among lurking pods of unpredictable hippos down the Zambezi, tracing the demise of the hapless Dodo in Mauritius, trekking for lowland gorillas in the rainforests of south-east Nigeria in the company of a wryly erudite local parks ranger, or pondering the Stone Age mind-set of wealthy trophy hunters, the author's exhilaration for wildlife and nature glows through the prism of a gradually darkening lens. The current state of our natural world may look bleak but giving up on it, as he reminds us, is not an option.","brand":"Matador Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071729746160,"sku":"2940158631641","price":6.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158631641_p0.jpg?v=1764120788","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158631641","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}