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Although it was still too dark to see well, Joe absentmindedly thrust his right palm in to the sack to remove the specimen and also have a peek. Immediately, he winced with pain and yanked out his palm. A tiny black-and-white banded snake, less than ten in . long, was dangling limply from his middle finger, its fangs still sunk into his flesh.In the fall of 2001, deep in the jungle of Burma, a team of experts is searching for unusual snakes. They are simply led by Dr. Joe Slowinski, at forty already one of the very most brilliant biologists of our time. It is the most ambitious clinical expedition ever installed into this remote control region, venturing in to the foothills of the Himalayas. The bold undertaking is brought to a dramatic halt by the bite of the many-banded krait, the deadliest serpent in Asia. In as soon as he pulled his palm from the specimen carrier and saw the krait, Joe realized that his life was in grave and imminent peril. Thus started one of the very most remarkable wilderness recovery attempts of modern times, as Joe's teammates placed him alive for thirty hours by mouth-to-mouth respiration, waiting for a recovery that never came.A daredevil enthusiastic about venomous snakes since his junior, Slowinski was a modern-day adventurer who increased quickly to the top of his field, discovering many previously unidentified snake species in his short yet exhilarating career. The Snake Charmer is at once amazing biography and spectacular travel literature, blended with an accessible introduction to the bizarre, fascinating-and sometimes controversial-world of snake science. The narrative transports the audience into primeval wilderness, from the Everglades to Peru to Burma, searching for rattlesnakes and boa constrictors, kraits and cobras.Joe Slowinski's career was fast and inspiring, his tragic final expedition a pulse-pounding have difficulties between man and nature. In The Snake Charmer, renowned journalist and author Jamie James captures the life span and death of this charismatic, endlessly exciting man. Exhaustively explored in interviews with Slowinski's colleagues and family, and the author's own trek in to the wilds of Burma, this is narrative nonfiction in the traditions of Into the Wild and The Perfect Surprise.
