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FATHER'S DAY

City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

Roger Crowley

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PROVENCE & THE COTE D'AZUR

A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

Georgeanne Brennan

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OUR FAVORITES

Arctic Dreams

Barry Lopez

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PENGUIN CLASSICS

The Log from the Sea of Cortez

John Steinbeck

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Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories

Billy Budd, Sailor and Other Stories


by Herman Melville

  • LITERATURE
  • 1989
  • PAPER
  • 385 PAGES

This collection of short fiction includes Las Encantadas, set in a highly stylized Galapagos (which Melville visited during his whaling days). (GPS37, $10.00)

Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Evolution and the Meanings of Life


by 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)

Darwin's Finches

Darwin's Finches


by Kathleen Donohue

  • SCIENCE
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 560 PAGES

A professor of biology at Duke with an interest in speciation and the genetic basis of adaptation, Donohue includes illuminating excerpts on our understanding of the finches, from Darwin's initial field notes 150 yeaars ago to the work of David Lack, Peter and Rosemary Grant and other modern ecologists. (GPS102, $45.00)

Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches

Ecology and Evolution of Darwin's Finches


by Peter R. Grant | Jonathan Weiner

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 492 PAGES
  • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

This is a scholarly, readable account by Peter Grant, who has devoted his life's work to the evolution and ecology of these curious Galapagos birds. (GPS44, $41.00)

A Field Guide to Sea Stars and Other Echinoderms of the Galapagos

A Field Guide to Sea Stars and Other Echinoderms of the Galapagos


by Cleveland P. Hickman

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 83 PAGES
  • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

A spiral-bound field guide to sea stars, urchins and sea cucumbers of Galapagos. (GPS31, $18.95)

The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands

The Fishes of the Galapagos Islands


by Jack Grove | Robert Lavenberg

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 1997
  • HARD COVER
  • 936 PAGES

An essential reference documenting 437 species of fish in the Galapagos. (GPS32, $145.00)

Galapagos Diary, A Complete Guide to the Archipelago's Birdlife

Galapagos Diary, A Complete Guide to the Archipelago's Birdlife


by Hermann Heinzel | Barnaby Hall

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

The jumbled, endearing and profusely illustrated journal of a birdwatching voyage to Galapagos, including hundreds of illustrations of all the birds. (GPS48, $34.95)

Galapagos Marine Life Series, Four Field Guides

Galapagos Marine Life Series, Four Field Guides


by Cleveland P. Hickman

  • FIELD GUIDE
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 673 PAGES

Beautifully illusrtated and authoritative, these four spiral-bound Galapagos field guides, prepared in collaboration with the Charles Darwin Research Station, include Sea Stars and other Echinoderms, Marine Molluscs, Crustaceans, and Corals and other Radiates. (GPS88, $75.00)

Odyssey Guide Galapagos

Odyssey Guide Galapagos


by Pierre Constant

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 316 PAGES

This compact, illustrated handbook by a veteran naturalist-guide covers the geology and geography, history and wildlife of the islands. With 70 sketch maps of landing sites, 180 color photographs and island-by-island descriptions. (GPS20, $24.95)

Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth

Volcanoes, Fire From the Earth


by Maurice Krafft

  • NATURAL HISTORY
  • 1993
  • PAPER
  • 175 PAGES
  • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE

By the great French volcanologist (who died on the job on Mount Unzen in Japan in 1992), this pocket guide features hundreds of full-color paintings, traces the study of volcanoes from early myth and legend to modern science. (GEO06, $15.95)

 

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