Saving the Ghost of the Mountain by Sy Montgomery

Gorilla Doctors: Saving Endangered Great Apes. (Scientists in the Field series) Houghton Mifflin, 2009. Once a Wolf: How Wildlife Biologists Fought to Bring Back the Gray Wolf. When the Wolves Returned: Restoring Nature’s Balance in Yellowstone. (Scientists in the Field series) Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Search for the Golden Moon Bear: Science and Adventure in the Asian Tropics. Saving the Ghost of the Mountain: An Expedition Among Snow Leopards in Mongolia.

Digging for Bird-Dinosaurs: An Expedition to Madagascar. First, she says, 'Follow your passion!' Find more pictures of tree kangaroos at Reviewed by : JF. Lisa Dabek offers practical advice to children who love and want to study or learn to protect animals. This one won a well-deserved Sibert Honor for distinguished informational books. These are down-to-earth books, beautifully designed color photo-filled essays, that introduce scientists who are devoted to their work. I'm a huge fan of the whole Scientists in the Field series. Bishop's glorious color photographs chronicle the group's grueling expedition on foot up into the cloud forest, 10,000 feet high, to track the elusive marsupials, easily the cutest mammals you've ever seen, and find out more about them and about the people who live in New Guinea. Sy Montgomery and photographer Nic Bishop didn't just supply text and photographs they went along on one of Dabek's expeditions to New Guinea, and this was no walk in the park.

Nevertheless, now she climbs mountains, leading teams of scientists and volunteers in the search for tree kangaroos, looking for answers to simple questions: What do they eat? How many are left? What do they need to survive? Dabek has always loved animals but has been allergic to fur since elementary school, and grew up with asthma.

Once she learned that the Matschie's tree kangaroo, one of 10 kinds of kangaroos, is one of the rarest animals on earth, she was hooked. 'It looked like a big stuffed animal,' she says. Dabek encountered her first one in the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle when she was a graduate student. As part of the 'Scientists in the Field' series, author Sy Montgomery has written another stellar profile of an admirable and committed scientist, animal-lover Lisa Dabek, a woman who has spent the past 20 years trekking through the cloud forests of New Guinea, studying the Matschie's (MATCH-EEZ) tree kangaroo of New Guinea.

Saving the Ghost of the Mountain by Sy Montgomery