Predators I Have Known

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet's most ferocious and fascinating predators Over the last forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature's most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the Australian coast to come face-to-face with great white sharks. Packed with pulse-pounding adventure and spiked with rapier wit, Predators I Have Knownis a thrilling look at life and death in the wild.

The New York Times–bestselling author of more than one hundred ten books, Alan Dean Foster is one of the most prominent writers of modern science fiction. Born in New York City in 1946, he studied filmmaking at UCLA, but first found success in 1968 when a horror magazine published one of his short stories. In 1972 he wrote his first novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first in his Pip and Flinx series featuring the Humanx Commonwealth, a universe he has explored in more than twenty-five books. He also created the Spellsinger series, numerous film novelizations, and the story for Star Trek: The Motion Picture. An avid world traveler, he lives with his family in Prescott, Arizona.

Dedication
INTRODUCTION
I. TYGER, TYGER, BURNING BRIGHT...
- East Central India, April 2003
II. THINGS YOU NEVER FORGET
- South Australia, January 1991
III. FELIX
- Mount Etjo, Namibia, November 1993
IV. THE CUTE LITTLE OCTOPUS AND THE HOMICIDAL SHELL
- East Central Australia, November 1989
V. JEALOUS ANTS, MILLIONS OF ANTS, AND REALLY, REALLY BIG...ANTS
- Southeastern Peru, May 1987
- Northeastern Gabon, January 2007
- Southeastern Peru, July 1998
VI. SHARKS I HAVEN’T JUMPED
- Bismarck Sea, September 1997
- West Australia, April 1992
VII. FLAT TIRES, OLD CANVAS, AND BIG CATS
- Tanzania, July 1984
- South Africa, May 2002
- Tanzania, August 1984
- Mount Etjo, Namibia, October 1993
VIII. MEANWHILE, SAFELY BACK HOME...
- Prescott, Arizona, Anytime
IX. EYES ON THE TRAIL
- Central Gabon, January 2007
X. EVER WONDER HOW WE TASTE?
- Papua New Guinea, October 1995
- Tanzania, July 1984
- Southeastern Peru, May 1987: A Sartorial Digression
XI. EATING, YAWNING, AND COITUS INTERRUPTUS
- Northern Botswana, October 1993
XII. AIR JAWS
- South Africa, June 2002
XIII. DRACULA IS A MUTE
- Northern Borneo, September 2010
XIV. TEENAGE KILLER NINJA OTTERS
- Southwestern Brazil, May 2000
CONCLUSION
VIDEO APPENDIX

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