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Footsteps in the Jungle
Jonathan Maslow
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Description for Footsteps in the Jungle
Hardback. Adventures in the scientific exploration of the American tropics, related by the prize-winning naturalist writer. Maslow recounts the exploits of thirteen pioneers-"inspired characters in mythopoetic settings. Call them Indiana Einsteins, and call us fortunate to have Maslow to tell their stories."-Kirkus Reviews. Num Pages: 319 pages, 2M. BIC Classification: BG; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 612.
Jonathan Maslow here portrays thirteen scientists whom he calls “the luckiest men and women of all time”—the explorers who first mapped the tropical regions of the Americas and discovered the glorious biological orgy that is nature in the tropics. They were the first to color the chorus of tropical birds; the first to know the swiftness of the jaguar; the first to learn the loves of the orchid family and to collect the daunting variety of moths and butterflies and beetles; the first to run the rivers of the Amazon, to climb the Andes, and to dive the coral reefs ... Read more
Jonathan Maslow here portrays thirteen scientists whom he calls “the luckiest men and women of all time”—the explorers who first mapped the tropical regions of the Americas and discovered the glorious biological orgy that is nature in the tropics. They were the first to color the chorus of tropical birds; the first to know the swiftness of the jaguar; the first to learn the loves of the orchid family and to collect the daunting variety of moths and butterflies and beetles; the first to run the rivers of the Amazon, to climb the Andes, and to dive the coral reefs ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
319
Condition
New
Number of Pages
319
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566631372
SKU
V9781566631372
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About Jonathan Maslow
Jonathan Maslow, a writer, naturalist, and filmmaker, has also written the widely praised Bird of Life, Bird of Death; Sacred Horses; and Torrid Zone. He lives in Cape May County, New Jersey.
Reviews for Footsteps in the Jungle
Inspired characters in mythopoetic settings...Call them Indiana Einsteins, and call us fortunate to have Maslow to tell their stories.
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