Financing a Rare Book on Endangered Species

After struggling to find a publisher for his project on the illegal trade of endangered species, Patrick Brown turned to Emphas.is, a photography crowd-sourcing Web site, to produce his book.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/31/financing-a-rare-book-on-endangered-species/?pagewanted=all

By his own account, Patrick Brown is a stubborn man.

Undeterred by beatings, police detentions or exotic illnesses, he has spent most of the past decade obsessively documenting the illegal trade of endangered species.