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A suddenly single father - and nationally known environmental reporter - can take his children on a world tour of a few of the world's exceptional and endangered life forms while reckoning with damage, change, and the troubles of parenting in this frank, funny, moving memoir. Following the fatality of his brother and the rapid end of his relationship, and after his ex-wife migrated to another condition leaving him only using their two small children, Dan Glick embarked on solitary fatherhood in an unconventional way: he took his kids over a journey about the world. The theory was to go see a few of the world's exceptional life forms before they vanished from the planet, and to take action before the kids themselves would increase up and graph their own pathways. In the summertime of 2001 Dan, Zoe, and Kolya became popular from Colorado for a six-month quest on which they'd see the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, the orangutans of Borneo, Javan Rhinos in Vietnam, the tigers of Nepal, and even more. Meeting countless troubles - mental, logistical and physical - the threesome distributed experiences they cannot have imagined and wouldn't normally soon neglect. Glick weaves accounts with their encounters with the natural world - and one another - with romantic reflections by himself reckoning with damage, change, and fatherhood, illuminating the commonalities between our human relationships with each other, and our marriage with the earth we inhabit. For anyone who dreams of going to the world's most exotic places, for anyone already navigating that untamed quest called parenting, Monkey Dance is by converts fascinating, funny, and wise.
