cover image Jaguar

Jaguar

Alan Rabinowitz. Anchor Books, $12 (370pp) ISBN 978-0-385-41519-4

Rabinowitz, a zoologist, describes two years of triumph and tragedy in the rain forests of Belize, where he lived among Mayan Indians while researching the jaguar population; he was instrumental in having the Cockscomb Basin there declared a National Forest Reserve. Photos. (Nov.)no PW