The Last Lions
| PUBLISHER | Smithsonian Books (09/16/2025) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
Get an intimate look at the lives of lions in this wildlife photography coffee table book featuring 275 breathtaking photos! Lion experts and conservationists issue a hopeful call to save one of the animal kingdom's most remarkable creatures. Lions are majestic, fierce, and dying at an alarming rate. The estimated population of 500,000 wild lions that lived in Africa in the 1950s has plummeted to around 20,000 today. The Last Lions is a powerful rallying cry voiced by scientists and conservationists to save the lions before it's too late, with stunning wildlife photography. Alongside 275 extraordinary images that capture the lions' distinctive beauty and strength, the book offers a sweeping exploration of the biology and behavior of lions, and the urgent work to protect them, including:
With wildlife photography that allows readers to peer intimately into the lives of lions and their prides--including ferociously taking down their prey, napping in trees, and nuzzling each other--the stunning photography inspires advocacy. Chapters from lion experts, including a foreword from nature writer David Quammen, share personal experiences witnessing and working with them, reckon with the continual threats to lions and the efforts to counteract them, and explore the relationship between people, lions, and the land. The Last Lions is an unforgettable homage to one of the world's most magnificent animals, and an essential call to ensure their future.
- Impacts of the lion trade, lion farming, cub petting, canned hunting, and the lion bone trade
- Past and present distribution and geography
- Rare white lions
- Frontline conservation efforts
- Dynamics and behaviors
- Paleontological history
- The future of lions
With wildlife photography that allows readers to peer intimately into the lives of lions and their prides--including ferociously taking down their prey, napping in trees, and nuzzling each other--the stunning photography inspires advocacy. Chapters from lion experts, including a foreword from nature writer David Quammen, share personal experiences witnessing and working with them, reckon with the continual threats to lions and the efforts to counteract them, and explore the relationship between people, lions, and the land. The Last Lions is an unforgettable homage to one of the world's most magnificent animals, and an essential call to ensure their future.
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Product Format
Product Details
ISBN-13:
9781588348050
ISBN-10:
1588348059
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
488
Carton Quantity:
8
Product Dimensions:
8.40 x 1.30 x 10.00 inches
Weight:
3.85 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Price on Product,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
CN
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Nature | Animals - Wildlife
Nature | Life Sciences - Zoology - Mammals
Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection - General
Dewey Decimal:
599.757
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Get an intimate look at the lives of lions in this wildlife photography coffee table book featuring 275 breathtaking photos! Lion experts and conservationists issue a hopeful call to save one of the animal kingdom's most remarkable creatures. Lions are majestic, fierce, and dying at an alarming rate. The estimated population of 500,000 wild lions that lived in Africa in the 1950s has plummeted to around 20,000 today. The Last Lions is a powerful rallying cry voiced by scientists and conservationists to save the lions before it's too late, with stunning wildlife photography. Alongside 275 extraordinary images that capture the lions' distinctive beauty and strength, the book offers a sweeping exploration of the biology and behavior of lions, and the urgent work to protect them, including:
With wildlife photography that allows readers to peer intimately into the lives of lions and their prides--including ferociously taking down their prey, napping in trees, and nuzzling each other--the stunning photography inspires advocacy. Chapters from lion experts, including a foreword from nature writer David Quammen, share personal experiences witnessing and working with them, reckon with the continual threats to lions and the efforts to counteract them, and explore the relationship between people, lions, and the land. The Last Lions is an unforgettable homage to one of the world's most magnificent animals, and an essential call to ensure their future.
- Impacts of the lion trade, lion farming, cub petting, canned hunting, and the lion bone trade
- Past and present distribution and geography
- Rare white lions
- Frontline conservation efforts
- Dynamics and behaviors
- Paleontological history
- The future of lions
With wildlife photography that allows readers to peer intimately into the lives of lions and their prides--including ferociously taking down their prey, napping in trees, and nuzzling each other--the stunning photography inspires advocacy. Chapters from lion experts, including a foreword from nature writer David Quammen, share personal experiences witnessing and working with them, reckon with the continual threats to lions and the efforts to counteract them, and explore the relationship between people, lions, and the land. The Last Lions is an unforgettable homage to one of the world's most magnificent animals, and an essential call to ensure their future.
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Editor:
Pinnock, Don
DON PINNOCK is an associate editor and a natural history columnist for South Africa's Getaway magazine. His life has been somewhat colorful and over the years he has been an electronic engineer, a lecturer in journalism and criminology, a professional yachtsman, explorer, travel writer, photographer and a cable-car operator on the Rock of Gibraltar. He is married to the novelist and poet Patricia Schonstein and they have two children, one an architect, the other studying genetics at the University of Cape Town.
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