Within weeks of publication, A Conservation Notebook has become an Amazon No. 1 "New Release" in three categories and a global bestseller in three categories.
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Curious Encounters of the Human Kind – Borneo
This is the fourth book in a five-book series of unusual (and true) personal travel tales.
How has a town named after a female vampire ghost spawned an entire genre of kitschy horror films? Why did a quiet Swiss man choose to live rough in the rainforest with the semi-nomadic Penans — and what inner spirit drove him to fight a David vs Goliath rebellion against timber tycoons and corrupt officials who were destroying the Penans’s home? Has White-Brown colonialism been replaced by Brown-Brown arrogance? What’s the story of the grandmother who spits at meddling ghosts (but only because they spit first)? Why did the first White Rajah of Borneo amass a vast harem of concubines? What happened when I tried to ride the tidal bore that almost killed Somerset Maugham? In what way was an illiterate Borneo teenager instrumental in helping Alfred Russel Wallace develop the theory of natural selection? How close are we to orangutans — “our poor cousins who look like they haven’t done so well in life” — and why do some rehabilitant orangutans go bi-polar?
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The Sultan and the Mermaid Queen
A love story for the ages SOLO, Indonesia The instructions, given by a friend of Javanese nobility, were tantalizingly vague. If you look really carefully, and if the wind is blowing right and you are of good heart and you let yourself “switch mode” into a semi-trance, you just might see a tenth dancer. That […]
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A Conservation Notebook
This new memoir, based on Paul Sochaczewski’s 50+ years working on the environment front lines, wanders from UN-bureaucracies to the wild regions of Indonesian New Guinea, from a mythical sacred mountain in India to a holy grove in Myanmar, from bioprospecting on the coral reefs of Micronesia to a “war of the trees” regreening program in Zimbabwe, from brave people with good intentions to powerful folks with greed tarnishing their hearts.
Searching for Ganesha earns bestseller status and BookLife accolades
Paul’s book on collecting images of Ganesha, the Hindu elephant-headed god that is among the most treasured of all deities, quickly reached #1 international bestseller status on Amazon.
BookLife Prize judges rated the book 9.5 out of 10, noting it is: “Filled with countless gorgeous photos and interesting stories regarding Sochaczewski’s travels, Searching for Ganesha is a charming, unusual, read.”