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Synopsis
In the middle of a Borneo rainforest a band of near-naked Penan, encouraged by an equally clothes-challenged renegade Swiss shepherd, hesitantly blockade a logging truck, testing their commitment to protect their forest home.
Nearby, an orangutan researcher is threatened with being thrown out of her study site unless she can reach a compromise with the powerful minister of the environment.
How can the world's oldest forest be saved? Who has the answer? The scientist who studies orangutans? The marketing experts of the world's largest nature conservation group? The earnest monkey-wrenchers? Or are they all just kidding themselves that they can make a difference?
At the heart of Redheads fictional action lies the very real problem of rainforest destruction and the philosophical question of where the real boundaries lie between apes and humans. Could sex be an effective instrument of communication between the two? And just what is it about red silk underwear, anyway?
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About the Author
Paul Spencer Sochaczewski has spent more than 30 years on the conservation front lines. Born in Brooklyn, New York, raised in northern New Jersey, graduated from George Washington University, he served in the Peace Corps for two years in remote parts of Sarawak, a Malaysian state on the island of Borneo, and was creative director of J. Walter Thompson advertising affiliates in Singapore and Indonesia for another ten. He ran World Wildlife Fund International’s global public awareness campaigns to protect tropical rainforests and biodiversity and is now a consultant for IUCN-the World Conservation Union and the International Osteoporosis Foundation. While on sabbatical in Hawaii in 1992, Paul changed his family name from Wachtel to the original vowel-challenged name of his Polish-born father. He is co-author, with Jeff McNeely, of Soul of the Tiger: Searching for Nature’s Answers in Southeast Asia (Doubleday, Paragon, Oxford University Press, University of Hawaii Pr! ess, Shinkosha) and EcoBluff Your Way to Instant Environmental Credibility (Bonus Books). Lyall Watson, author of Supernature, said Soul of the Tiger is 'a timely, revealing, delightful, and yet totally unsentimental look at the relationship between our own and other species which must lie at the heart of all successful conservation.' Kirkus Reviews called the book '...a rich exotic kettle of myths, origin tales, ritual dances, blood spots, natural-historical oddities, human-animal soul transfers and transformations...a lush eco-cultural travelogue of myth and ritual...
'He has written more than 500 by-lined articles for the International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Geographical, International Wildlife, BBC Wildlife, Earth Times, E: The Environmental Magazine, GQ Active and many other publications, and is on the editorial advisory board of the Indonesian Heritage Encyclopedia and the Encyclopedia of Malaysia (Archipelago Press). He lives in a small village in Switzerland.
Review
Anabsorbing story, reminiscent of the social commentaryh of Somerset Maugham and Evelyn Waugh. Everyone working in conservation should read it.... -- Jim Thorsell, Ph.D., Senior Advisor, World Heritage
Each page carries the scent, the musk even, of tropical Asia.... -- James Clad, Professor of Asian Studies, Georgetown University
Redheads is a rollicking and often raunchy read. -- Michael Day, West Australian
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- PublisherSid Harta Publishers
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0958744882
- ISBN 13 9780958744881
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages251
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