Winged Obsession e-bog
111,73 DKK
(inkl. moms 139,66 DKK)
One of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. In this cutthroat $200 million business, no one was more successfulor posed a greater ecological dangerthan Yoshi Kojima, the kingpin of butterfly smugglers.In Winged Obsession, author Jessica Speart tells the riveting true story of rookie U.S. Fish and Wildlif...
E-bog
111,73 DKK
Forlag
William Morrow
Udgivet
27 marts 2012
Længde
336 sider
Genrer
True crime
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062207043
One of the world's most beautiful endangered species, butterflies are as lucrative as gorillas, pandas, and rhinos on the black market. In this cutthroat $200 million business, no one was more successfulor posed a greater ecological dangerthan Yoshi Kojima, the kingpin of butterfly smugglers.In Winged Obsession, author Jessica Speart tells the riveting true story of rookie U.S. Fish and Wildlife Agent Ed Newcomer's determined crusade to halt the career of a brazen and ingenious criminal with an almost supernatural sixth sense for survival. But the story doesn't end there. Speart chronicles her own attempts, while researching the book, to befriend Kojima before betraying himunaware that the cagey smuggler had his own plans to make the writer a player in his illegal butterfly trade.