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In the Heart of the Amazon Forest

In the Heart of the Amazon Forest


by Henry Walter Bates

  • LITERATURE
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 108 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

A choice excerpt from Bates' classic Naturalist of the River Amazonas (1863). Bates was one of a triumvirate of Victorian scientific explorers including Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. (AMZ109, $10.00)

The Biodiversity Crisis, Losing What Counts


by Michael Novacek

  • SCIENCE
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 224 PAGES
  • OUT OF PRINT

An accessible primer on the ecology and conservation of species diversity published by the American Museum of Natural History. (CON25, $19.95)

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