Yeti

Description

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 bioresilience 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.

About the Author

Daniel C. Taylor is currently President, Future Generations University (www.future.edu), having also started the global family of seven Future Generations organizations (www.future.org). Earlier, he led The Mountain Institute (www.mountain.org). He has his master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard University. In recognition of his conservation work he was knighted Gorkha Dakshin Bau III by the King of Nepal, made Honorary Professor of Quantitative Ecology by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and decorated with the Order of the Golden Arc by Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands.

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Reviews

‘Any book from Daniel Taylor is an occasion for celebration. No one knows or has thought more about the complex fusion of culture, landscape and spirit that is the very essence of the Himalaya. The story of the Yeti distills all of this magic into a single beam of illumination. And into this light walks Daniel, always the scientist, who reveals the truth, but in a way that only fires further the imaginations of all of us.’—Wade Davis, Professor of Anthropology and Ecosystems at Risk, University of British Columbia, Canada

‘Three decades have passed since I met Daniel Taylor ... Together we established a nature preserve as an abode for all creatures, mythical as the Yeti or real as bears ... Still people are calling ‘Abominable Snowman’ to the innocent Yeti who resides in the hearts of mountain people, who adds life in their arts and culture, and overall who helped them to raise their livelihood through tourism. I am thrilled Daniel has come up once again with ... the secrets of nature in the highest terrestrial ecosystem of this living planet.’—Tirtha B. Shrestha, Life Member, Nepal Academy, Kathmandu, Nepal

‘A mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped in one hell of a yarn—and with big implications not just for protecting the Himalayas, but for the way we think about the world.’—Bill McKibben, environmentalist, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, and founder of 350.org

‘In one fell stroke of clarity, Daniel Taylor has re-written the history books and rid us of a decades old fantasy—that of an as-yet-undiscovered ‘higher’ being—higher at least in terms of altitude, if not the smarts to elude us for over a half century! The Yeti of the Himalaya (remember the cover of Tintin in Tibet?), Bigfoot or Sasquach of North America and the Mande Burung of Meghalaya—all have been put to rest in one go! Yeti slayer or eco-chronicler cum geographer extraordinaire—call him what you will, Daniel Taylor is a true Himalayan soul who has traversed the mountains from Arunachal to Uttarakhand—from a childhood in Landour to his more recent years spent in education and conservation, spanning a sixty-year swathe of time. He can speak to the people of the Himalaya and of the animals, with equal poise. He speaks as much to the city-dweller as to ‘all who also make the wild part of their lives’. Indeed, over the years Daniel has made the high altitude wildernesses a part of his life! He takes us along on a journey from the wilds of India that he grew up in to the equally challenging wilds of the new age, in a particularly well-written series of lucid essays that are Thoreau-like at one level and Gerard Manley Hopkins-esque in their poetic thoughtfulness, at another. Unstoppable and unputdownable—you run the real risk of throwing it all away and heading to the mountains up north when you’re done with the stories of Daniel’s Himalayan lifetime as told in this book! Go for it ...’—Rupin Dang, filmmaker, Wilderness Films India

Table of contents

Mysteries and Challenges: An Introduction

1. Arriving at the Yeti’s Jungle
2. In the Yeti’s Jungle
3. The Bear Mystery
4. My First Yetis
5. Yeti Expeditions
6. Footprints Melting into Rivers
7. Towards the Barun Jungles
8. Our Evidence Meets Science
9. Evidence Slipping Away
10. From Whence Knowledge
11. The King and His Zoo
12. Back in the Barun
13. Bears and Bioresilience
14. Entrapping the Yeti
15. Discovery

Afterword
Glossary
About the Author