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Author: Adrian Forsyth Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439144745 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Author: Adrian Forsyth Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1439144745 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Author: Nancy Stepan Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 9780801438813 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
"Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--Jacket.
Author: Dot Barlowe Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486465624 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 52
Book Description
Windswept beaches. Swaying palm trees. Gorgeous sunsets. Colorists and other artists can escape to exotic, faraway places with this collection of 23 breathtaking scenes. Perforated pages make it easy to remove each illustration.
Author: Adrian Forsyth Publisher: New York : C. Scribner ISBN: Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Author: Walter M. Goldberg Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319695320 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 214
Book Description
This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations. The book emphasizes the roles of plants, animals, people, and the environment in shaping the tropical Pacific through a cross-disciplinary approach involving history, geography, biology, environmental science, and anthropology. With these diverse scientific perspectives, the eight chapters of the book provide a comprehensive overview of Tropical Pacific Islands from their initial colonization by native peoples to their occupation by colonial powers, and the contemporary changes that have affected the natural history and social fabric of these islands. The Tropical Pacific Islands are introduced by a description of their geological formation, development, and geography. From there, the book details the origins of the island's original peoples and the dawn of the political economy of these islands, including the domestication and trade of plants, animals, and other natural resources. Next, readers will learn about the impact of missionaries on Pacific Islands, and the affects of Wold War II and nuclear testing on natural resources and the health of its people. The final chapter discusses the islands in the context of natural resource extraction, population increases, and global climate change. Working together these factors are shown to affect rainfall and limited water resources, as well as the ability to sustain traditional crops, and the capacity of the islands to accomodate its residents.
Author: Adrian Forsyth
Author: Adrian Forsyth
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Author: Adrian Forsyth
Author: Adrian Forsyth
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