Recounts the author's five year study of giant pandas and the problems facing those who are trying to save the species from extinction.

Discusses the wildlife, vegetation, physical features, and people of the Himalaya Mountains.

"In this tale of the struggle for survival of the gorillas of the Virunta Mountains in Africa, award winning Magnum photographer Michael Nichols provides us with both beautiful and disturbing pictures of the fragile ecosystem there. These are the same animals immortalized by the anthropologist Dian Fossey, and the movie Gorillas in the Mist."--lensculture.com.