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Title:
Moments of discovery : natural history narratives from Mexico and Central America / edited by Kevin Winker.
Publisher:
University Press of Florida,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xiii, 401 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Subject:
Natural history--Research--Mexico--Anecdotes.
Natural history--Research--Central America--Anecdotes.
Naturalists--Biography.
Mexico--Description and travel.
Central America--Description and travel.
Other Authors:
Winker, Kevin.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Studying the birds of Los Tuxlas / Kevin Winker. From rain forest to cloud forest in Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica / Robert F. Andrle -- Studying birds in the Sonoran Desert / John M. Bates -- Back roads with Ben / Lula C. Coffey -- A collecting expedition to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec / Walter W. Dalquest -- Some Mexican experiences / Robert W. Dickerman -- Sabbatical trip to Panama, 1970 / Stephen E. Eaton -- My early Mexican travels / Ernest P. Edwards -- Adventure is where you find it / John T. Emlen, Jr. -- An ornithological expedition to the lowland tropical rain forest of the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, Southern Veracruz, Mexico / Paul D. Haemig -- The Rancho del Cielo / Joyce Heck -- Bird specimens collected at Lake Olomega, El Salvador / Joe T. Marshall, Jr. -- Green mansions of Tamaulipas / Paul S. Martin -- A Kekchi odyssey / Don Owen-Lewis -- Civil war and rain forests in the Chimalapas / A. Townsend Peterson -- Lost in the Tuxtlas / John H. Rappole -- Six trips to Mexico, 1939-1950 / Charles G. Sibley -- Fifteen years of studying birds in El Salvador, 1966-1980 / Walter A. Thurber -- Recollections of Mexico: people and places / Dwain W. Warner -- Studying the birds of Los Tuxlas / Kevin Winker.
ISBN:
0813034175 (alk. paper)
9780813034171 (alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)316826731
LCCN:
2009030437
Locations:
OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

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