The Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat Length he opened the Yasukanai Bonsai

he opened the Yasukanai Bonsai Garden

a deep sense of place

Beginning with the plagues that ravaged Eurasia in the fourteenth century

or hunted to extinction

charts a new way of thinking about land

The Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat Length he opened the Yasukanai BonsaiWhen the nature writer Richard Mahler discovers that wild jaguars are prowling a remote corner of his home state of New Mexico, he embarks on a determined quest to see in the flesh a big, beautiful cat that is the stuff of legend yet verifiably real. Mahlers passion sets in motion a years long adventure through trackless deserts, steamy jungles, and malarial swamps, as well as a confounding immersion in centuries old debates over how we should