Every step of his journey is fraught with thorny truths and devastating facts about mankind's carelessness. His testimony of heartbreak and hope shines brightest when he's recounting personal experiences. William deBuys traverses the wilds in search of proof that the saola, a creature rare as the unicorn, still exists.
As is true with the quest for the unicorn, in the end the expedition becomes a search for something the essence of wildness in nature, evidence that the soul of a place can endure, and the transformative power of natural beauty. It's a story rich with the joys and sorrows of an expedition into undiscovered country, pursuing a species as rare and elusive as the fabled unicorn. In the tradition of Bruce Chatwin, Colin Thubron, and Peter Matthiessen, The Last Unicorn chronicles deBuys's journey deep into one of the world's most remote places. Their team endured a punishing trek up and down white-water rivers and through mountainous terrain ribboned with the snare lines of armed poachers who roamed the forest, stripping it of wildlife. Rare then and rarer now, a live saola had never been glimpsed by a Westerner in the wild when Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in central Laos. It turned out to be a living species new to Western science - a saola, the first large land mammal discovered in fifty years. In 1992, in a remote mountain range, a team of scientists discovered the remains of an unusual animal with exquisite long horns. An award-winning author's quest to find and understand a creature as rare and enigmatic as any on Earth.
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