"Dubbed the "Indiana Jones" of wildlife science by The New York Times, Alan Rabinowitz has devoted - and risked - his life to protect nature's great endangered animals. He has journeyed to the remote corners of the earth in search of wild things, surviving treacherous terrain, plane crashes, and hostile governments. Life in the Valley of Death recounts his most ambitious and dangerous adventure yet: the creation of the world's largest tiger preserve deep in the forests of Asia." "The tale is set in the lush Hukawng Valley of Myanmar (formerly Burma), home to perhaps one of the largest tiger populations outside of India - a population threatened by rampant poaching and gold prospectors. To save the remaining tigers, Rabinowitz must navigate not only an unforgiving landscape, but the tangled web of politics in Myanmar. Confronted with a military dictatorship, an insurgent army, tribes once infamous for taking the heads of their enemies, and villagers living on less than one U.S. dollar p