He provided science with a rare opportunity to assemble information about little-known aspects of Neolithic life. Journalist Fowler describes the findings with care. Alas, the Iceman also provided the occasion for a remarkable amount of bickering. The Austrians thought he was theirs, but a survey showed that he lay in what is now Italy, just 101 yards south of the border with Austria, and so he is now on display at a new museum in Italy's South Tyrol. Additional quarrels arose over the manner of preserving the body, the money to be paid for and made from the discovery, and the conflicting scenarios of how the Iceman met his end.
Fowler sets all that out, too.
She makes an absorbing story of the saga. Peter Matthiessen's Tigers in the Snow. Introduction and photographs by Maurice Hornocker. Hunting and loss of habitat reduced the world's tiger population from about 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century to around 5,000 at the end of it. At least three of the eight species of Panthera tigris are effectively extinct in the wild.