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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories
• Herman Melville
LITERATURE •
1989 •
PAPER
• 385 PAGES
A collection of short fiction including "Las Encantadas," ten sketches firmly set in a highly stylized Galapagos Islands (which Melville visited during his whaling days). In his vision, the islands are a kind of hell, a wasteland.
(GPS37, $10.00) |
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Evolution and the Meanings of Life
• Daniel C. Dennett
SCIENCE •
1996 •
PAPER
• 586 PAGES
A National Book Award-winning consideration of evolution by natural selection and its impact on the history of science. Dennett argues that Darwinian processes are the central organizing force that gives rise to complexity, including human minds and societies.
(HSC31, $18.00) |
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Darwin's Finches
• Kathleen Donohue
SCIENCE •
2011 •
PAPER
• 560 PAGES
Beginning with fragments of Darwin's Galapagos field notes and subsequent correspondence, and moving through the writings of such famed field biologists as David Lack and Peter and Rosemary Grant, Donohue shows how ideas about the eviolutiuonary relationships, ecology and status of the various species of finch have changed over time.
(GPS102, $45.00) |
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Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches
• Peter R. Grant
• Jonathan Weiner
NATURAL HISTORY •
1999 •
PAPER
• 492 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A scholarly, readable account of Grant's comprehensive study of Darwin's finches, including a forward by Jonathan Weiner (who wrote "Beak of the Finch") and an update by Peter Grant -- who has devoted his life's work to the evolution and ecology of these curious Galapagos birds. For those not put off by charts and tables and the language of population ecology, it's a fascinating book and an excellent example of a long-term ecological study. A volume in "Princeton Science Library" and modern classic of evolution first published in 1986. With 20 color illustrations.
(GPS44, $41.00) |
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A Field Guide to Sea Stars and Other Echinoderms of the Galapagos
• Cleveland P. Hickman
FIELD GUIDE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 83 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A spiral-bound field guide illustrating 62 species of sea stars, urchins and sea cucumbers, including endemic species. With 100 color photographs and information on distribution and natural history.
(GPS31, $18.95) |
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The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands
• Jack Grove
• Robert Lavenberg
FIELD GUIDE •
1997 •
HARD COVER
• 936 PAGES
An essential reference with hundreds of color photographs and detailed information on range, distribution and natural history for 437 species.
(GPS32, $145.00) |
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Galapagos Diary, A Complete Guide to the Archipelago's Birdlife
• Hermann Heinzel
• Barnaby Hall
NATURAL HISTORY •
2000 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
The jumbled, endearing and profusely illustrated journal of a voyage to Galapagos by a bird illustrator and a teenage family friend and photographer. Heinzel and Hall sailed to many more islands than the usual, climbed Volcan Alcedo -- and recorded it all in hundreds of sketches, water color illustrations and photographs. With an astounding 24 pages devoted to Darwin's Finches alone. The 670 (!) drawings show behavior, variation and personality of each species. Oddly organized without a table of contents and minuscule type size, it's still a terrific book. Here's what a Longitude customer said about it: "While it's a 9 1/4" x 6 1/2" paperback, and not light, I for one would have wanted it along on my visit to the Galapagos; the combination of Heinzel's sketches and drawings and Hall's photos showing multiple images of birds in various plumages would have been very useful, and worth lugging around! The first half of the book, detailing their trip chronologically, makes for interesting reading, and the photos and sketches there, if anything, are even more artistically interesting than the second half, probably more valuable to birders, which gives photos, illustrations and details by species. Heinzel and Hall have, to my mind, finally come up with the solution to the vexing problem of whether to go with a bird guide illustrated with photos or drawings, each of which has advantages. These guys let us have it both ways!"
(GPS48, $34.95) |
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Galapagos Marine Life Series, Four Field Guides
• Cleveland P. Hickman
FIELD GUIDE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 673 PAGES
Beautifully illustrated and authoritative, these four spiral-bound Galapagos field guides include Sea Stars and other Echinoderms, Marine Molluscs, Crustaceans, and Corals and other Radiates. Of interest to marine scientists, curious visitors, snorkelers and divers, each compact guide features color photographs, drawings and detailed species descriptions. Produced in collaboration with the Charles Darwin research Station and leading invertebrate specialists.
(GPS88, $75.00) |
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Odyssey Guide Galapagos
• Pierre Constant
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 316 PAGES
Subtitled "A Natural History Guide," this compact book is an illustrated overview of the islands -- and especially the wildlife -- with 70 sketch maps, 180 color photographs and island-by-island descriptions.
(GPS20, $24.95) |
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Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth
• Maurice Krafft
NATURAL HISTORY •
1993 •
PAPER
• 175 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
This lavishly illustrated pocket-size encyclopedia by the great French scientist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1991) covers the formation and study of volcanoes along with dozens of famous examples.
(GEO06, $15.95) |
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