Discovering the Okapi: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma - Paperback
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Discovering the Okapi: Western Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and the Search for a Rainforest Enigma
The captivating history of the okapi and its symbolic role in science, culture, and conservation.
In Discovering the Okapi, Simon Pooley offers a fascinating portrait of the okapi--an elusive short-necked giraffid with zebra stripes, surviving in the rainforests of central Africa's Congo basin--and unpacks the complicated layers of Western science and Indigenous knowledge that shaped the world's...
Simon Pooley is the Lambert Lecturer in Environment at Birkbeck, University of London. He is the coeditor of Histories of Bioinvasions in the Mediterranean and the author of Burning Table Mountain: An Environmental History of Fire on the Cape Peninsula.
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