From Borneo to Zaire, Karesh has shuttled through much of the world to bring much-needed medicines and surgical techniques to populations of animals that can't afford to lose even one to disease or injury. Plenty of illustrations and color plates bring the rhinos, peccaries, and macaws helped by the good doctor vividly to life, and the maps and sidebars help the reader achieve a sense of place missing from so many world-spanning books. Appointment at the Ends of the World is as certain to enrage as it is to delight; more than this, though, it kindles the desire to reach out and help those in need. --Rob Lightner

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November, 1992: I celebrate Thanksgiving with friends in the Cameroon rain forest, share "afofo" with some highly unusual drinking buddies, and am almost killed by an elephant.

From saving the life of a wounded okapi in Zaire to collecting DNA samples from endangered orangutans in Borneo, Dr. William Karesh cares for and protects animals in some of the most exotic and remote corners of the world. Now, in a book that is part travelogue, part conservation primer, and all adventure thriller, this world-renowned veterinarian shares some of his most fascinating-and dangerous-encounters in the wild.

APPOINTMENT AT THE ENDS OF THE WORLD...takes you to Bolivia to track down elusive white-lipped peccaries, to the arid windswept coast of Peru to make pediatric house calls to boisterous seal pups, and deep into the heart of Africa where poachers and marauding soldiers can be just as dangerous as the venomous snakes. Discover what it's really like to live in the bush in Zaire (look out for safari ants), meet hand-raised macaws who enjoy human company so much they gather to watch Dr. Karesh take a bath, and learn that orangutans are so intelligent they can pick the locks on their cages.

Along with the vanishing forest elephants of sub-Saharan Africa and the other rare animals he encounters, Dr. Karesh introduces you to the remarkable, caring people he meets on his assignments, from dedicated conservationists to the villagers of Baro, Cameroon, who believe their wise men transform themselves into elephants.

A wondrous journey with a committed crusader, APPOINTMENT AT THE ENDS OF THE WORLD also provides a behind-the-scenes look at the politics of saving wild places. Most of all, it captures one man's intensity about animals and their plight-and his powerful message about preserving their world.

WILLIAM KARESH, D.V.M., heads the International Field Veterinary Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society. This one-of-a-kind program was developed by Dr. Karesh and provides veterinary services all over the world for wildlife conservation projects. Dr. Karesh, a recognized international authority, has authored more than seventy-five scientific articles on wildlife health. When he is not traveling the globe, he resides in New York City.