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Searching for Ganesha

Searching for Ganesha Collecting Images of the Sweet-Loving, Elephant-Headed Hindu Deity Everybody Admires Publishing details ISBN: Paperback: 978-2-940573-37-0 ISBN: eBook: 978-2-940573-38-7 248 pages More than 200 full-color, museum-quality photos of Ganesha objects in Paul’s collection Prices: Paperback: $34.95 eBook: $9.99 A sample selection of pages from the book Description Across […]

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Religions on the Wing

Everyone in Irian Jaya wants a piece of Zakarias’s soul MINYAMBOU, Irian Jaya. When the fundamentalist Baptist missionaries in this isolated valley in Irian Jaya now West Papua] asked for contributions to build a new church, Zakarias chipped in with the most valuable thing he could find — a bird of paradise. The irony of […]

What I learned by writing an “enhanced biography” of a little-known 19th-century teenager from Borneo

“Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird” What I learned by writing an “enhanced biography” of a little-known 19th-century teenager from Borneo Consider the lives of great men and women who explored the curious corners of the world, who made momentous discoveries in science and technology, who created important works of art. We can safely […]

Watch Paul’s presentation, February 23, 2023, on “Are You Optimistic?” about the importance of marketing, positioning, and story-telling in addressing conservation challenges, given to Ecologues, Paris. Based on his book “A Conservation Notebook. “

Watch Paul’s presentation, February 22, 2023, on “Alfred Russel Wallace – The Hero’s Journey in Southeast Asia” given to the Royal Geographical Society of Hong Kong

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski

Announcing the publication of

"Look Here, Sir, What a Curious Bird"

Searching for Ali, Alfred Russel Wallace's Faithful Companion