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ECUADOR & GALAPAGOS
Worth Looking For
Key Environments Galapagos
• Roger Perry
SCIENCE •
1984 •
HARD COVER
• COMING IN
Each of the 19 chapters in this excellent overview of the geology, oceanography, ecology and wildlife of the archipelago is by a different specialist.
(GPS103, $) |
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Geology and Petrology of the Galapagos Islands
• Alexander R. McBirney
SCIENCE •
1969 •
HARD COVER
• 197 PAGES
• COMING IN
Published by the The Geological Society of America, this classic account of their geology and petrology of the islands resulted from the 1964 Galapagos International Scientific Project.
(GPS101, $) |
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The Gigantic Land Tortoises of the Galapagos Archipelago
• John Van Denburgh
NATURAL HISTORY •
1914 •
HARD COVER
• 364 PAGES
• COMING IN
Van Denburgh's classic 1914 monographs on giant tortoises based on material obtained by the 1905-06 California Academy of Sciences expedition to the Galapagos.
(GPS100, $28.95) |
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My Father's Island, A Galapagos Quest
• Johanna Angermeyer
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1990 •
PAPER
• 303 PAGES
• COMING IN
The daughter of Johannes Angermeyer, one of the original settlers on Santa Cruz in 1930s, Johanna recounts life in Pelican Bay and the highlands, starting in the 1970s, when she returned with her family. Born in Nebraska during the upheavals of WWII in the archipelago, she never knew her father.
(GPS97, $24.95) |
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Infinite Ecuador
• Sebastian Crespo
NATURAL HISTORY •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 131 PAGES
• COMING IN
Ecuador-based photographers Sebastian Crespo, Carla Gachet, Ivan Kashinsky, David Marin and Jorge Vinueza Garcia all contribute to this dazzling visual journey, covering diverse landscapes, monuments and hertage of Ecuador from the Andes to the Pacific coast, Amazon and Galapagos. Published in Ecuador with captions in Spanish and English.
(EDR28, $50.00) |
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Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean by Captain David Porter in the United States Frigate Essex in the Years 1812, 1
• David Porter
JOURNAL •
2006 •
PAPER
• COMING IN
Porter's classic account of a voyage to Brazil, Chile, Peru, Galapagos and the Pacific aboard the U.S. frigate Essex in 1812, 1813 and 1814.
(PAC180, $35.00) |
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Galapagos, Wild Portraits
• Tui De Roy
• Mark Jones
NATURAL HISTORY •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 111 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
• COMING IN
An illustrated compendium of beautifully photographed sea lions, blue-footed boobies, sally light-foot crabs, marine iguanas, whales and other creatures of the Galapagos by the roving naturalist-photographer duo, with notes.
(GPS77, $39.95) |
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Floreana, A Women's Pilgrimage to the Galapagos
• Margaret Wittmer
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1990 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
• COMING IN
In this memoir, Wittmer gives her version of the oft-told story of eking out a living on rugged Floreana Island. It includes her arrival as a young woman, her pioneering days and the strange neighbors who soon joined the Wittmers on the small island. It's quite a story, down-to-earth and frequently humorous.
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