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Schaller trades between resolutely conveying fact and wistfully recalling narrative so often as to cause Stones of Silence to slip into a strange, but sensational, meditative experience.

In seven pages, George B. Schaller delivers both an impassioned plea to preserve the natural world and a promise of high adventure that justifies preservation. It’s this balance of tones more than his actual skill as a writer that piques my interest and begs the question, “Will the next two hundred and seventy pages deliver what the first seven have addressed?”.

Excerpt from the book - "For epochs to come the peaks will still pierce the lonely vistas, but when the last snow leopard has stalked among the crags and the last markhor has stood on a promontory, his ruff waving in the breeze, a spark of life will have gone, turning the mountains into *stones of silence* ."

Excerpt from the book - "For epochs to come the peaks will still pierce the lonely vistas, hut when the last snow leopard has stalked among the crags and the last markhor has stood on a promontory, his ruff waving in the breeze, a spark of life will have gone, turning the mountains into *stones of silence* ."