Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth
By Daniel Glick
Daniel Glick came upon a news article in early 2001 proclaiming that half the world's coral reefs would die within his lifetime. Reeling from a painful divorce and the unexpected loss of his brother, Glick, a veteran environmental journalist, determined to take his son, Kolya, and daughter, Zoe, on an epic journey to see the world's great ecological wonders—"before they're gone." In Monkey Dancing: A Father, Two Kids, and a Journey to the Ends of the Earth (Public Affairs, $26), Glick invites readers to stow away on his family's spirited and courageous six-month trek in search of the orangutans of Borneo, the tigers of Nepal, the Great Barrier Reef in Australia—and an understanding of both ecological and familial loss. Through these wild adventures the family comes to understand something that gives Glick hope: "At this time of multiple crises, from the personal to the political to the humanitarian to the ecological, we need to realize a profound fact. … We are all Earthlings."
— Evan Johnson
