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Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
QUESTS ENRICH OUR LIVES
Quests are the backbone of all the great fables. And they are key elements in leading a satisfying and enriching life.
This volume of 24 quests…
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Born in 1823, Alfred Russel Wallace devoted much of his time to fieldwork, first in the Amazon and then in Asia. During his travels he identified what is now known…
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Would you risk your life by hugging a tree? How do you find a nameless young girl you met (for five minutes) twenty-six years earlier? This is the Himalayan region…
What do jumping cats have to do with Buddhism’s Middle Path? How did Myanmar’s ruling junta use white elephants to consolidate their power? This is Myanmar as you’ve probably never…
What is the allure of Waltzing Banana Island? Why does it make good business sense to make friends with the dragon princess? This is Indonesia as you’ve probably never imagined…
Has White-Brown colonialism been replaced by Brown-Brown arrogance? How close are we to orangutans? This is Borneo as you’ve probably never imagined, full of curious people, startling happenings, and unexpected…
What’s the attraction of coffee that’s been digested by a civet? Did a love potion help a Filipino politician become governor? This is Southeast Asia as you’ve probably never imagined…
Perhaps you aren’t too sure how to start your story, how to focus, how to make it interesting for other people.The Ten Writing Tips in Share Your Journey will give…
In the middle of a Borneo rainforest, a band of near-naked Penan tribesmen, encouraged by a renegade Swiss shepherd, hesitantly blockade a logging truck, testing their commitment to protect their…
Distant Greens travels into the soul of golf, the rituals, the belief that a tetrachaidecohedron-dimple-pattern can make a difference. What is the future of golf? Can golf and nature support…
An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles follows the Victorian-era explorations of Alfred Russel Wallace through Indonesia, Singapore, and Malaysia. Sochaczewski has created an innovative form of storytelling, combining incisive biography and…
Exceptional Encounters takes the seeds of true stories and applies the classic fiction writer’s aerobic exercise by asking: What if? These enhanced-reality fabulations draw the reader into tales of just-over-the-rainbow…
Paul Sochaczewski-a self-described Agnostic Spiritualist-travels to Indonesia, Myanmar, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland to speak with mediums, shamans, and, yes, spirits of dead folks, in this innovative work of personal…
EarthLove satirically chronicles the history of the global conservation movement and exposes battles pitting ego and greed versus noble intentions. Who has the power to stop the rape of the…
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A Great Man and His Unheralded Assistant
For some 50 years, Paul Sochaczewski has been on the trail of famous naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace and his little-known assistant Ali.
The…
Jeffrey A. McNeely,Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
Rural communities in Southeast Asia believe that humans are spiritually bound to wildlife, and allow the animals to exist as an integral part of local life. Combining natural history and…
Are You Optimistic We Can Save the Plantet?
A Conservation Notebook has plenty of Paul in it, but it’s not intended to be a memoir. Nor is it a history…
