Pilgrim On The Great Bird Continent
The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks
$100.07
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
3 August 2006
Summary
Charles Darwin was a bumbling neophyte naturalist when he boarded the Beagle in 1831. Through the five years that followed, as the ship hugged the coastline of South America, Darwin found himself crawling through waist-deep mud, climbing towerlike trees in the rainforest, and scaling craggy Patagonian cliffs as he collected specimens and closely observed the relationship between the creatures he stalked and the astonishing, utterly unfamiliar landscapes where he found them.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316836647 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316836648 |
| Author: | Lyanda Lynn Haupt |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 3 August 2006 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 24mm x 161mm x 233mm |
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‘Far sharper and more engaging than the smug Kellermans.’ The Guardian ‘Thrillers of the first order.’ Nelson DeMille ‘Psychological suspense at its best.’ Jeffery Deaver
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Lyanda Lynn Haupt holds a master’s degree in the history and philosophy of science, with a personal emphasis in ornithology, and the emerging science of conservation biology. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Open Spaces, Wild Earth Journal, Birdwatcher’s Digest, and The Prairie Naturalist.
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