Tropical Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropical Nature write by Adrian Forsyth. This book was released on 2011-05-24. Tropical Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Picturing Tropical Nature
Picturing Tropical Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Picturing Tropical Nature write by Nancy Stepan. This book was released on 2001. Picturing Tropical Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Picturing Tropical Nature reflects on the work of several nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. Their careers illuminate several aspects of tropicalization: science and art in the making of tropical pictures; the commercial and cultural boom in things tropical in the modern period; photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races; antitropicalism and its role in an emerging environmentalist sensibility; and visual depictions of disease in the new tropical medicine."--Jacket.
Tropical Nature, and Other Essays
Tropical Nature, and Other Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropical Nature, and Other Essays write by Alfred Russel Wallace. This book was released on 1878. Tropical Nature, and Other Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands
The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands write by Walter M. Goldberg. This book was released on 2017-12-08. The Geography, Nature and History of the Tropical Pacific and its Islands available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume provides an accessible scientific introduction to the historical geography of Tropical Pacific Islands, assessing the environmental and cultural changes they have undergone and how they are affected currently by these shifts and alterations. The book emphasizes the roles of plants, animals, people, and the environment in shaping the tropical Pacific through a cross-disciplinary approach involving history, geography, biology, environmental science, and anthropology. With these diverse scientific perspectives, the eight chapters of the book provide a comprehensive overview of Tropical Pacific Islands from their initial colonization by native peoples to their occupation by colonial powers, and the contemporary changes that have affected the natural history and social fabric of these islands. The Tropical Pacific Islands are introduced by a description of their geological formation, development, and geography. From there, the book details the origins of the island's original peoples and the dawn of the political economy of these islands, including the domestication and trade of plants, animals, and other natural resources. Next, readers will learn about the impact of missionaries on Pacific Islands, and the affects of Wold War II and nuclear testing on natural resources and the health of its people. The final chapter discusses the islands in the context of natural resource extraction, population increases, and global climate change. Working together these factors are shown to affect rainfall and limited water resources, as well as the ability to sustain traditional crops, and the capacity of the islands to accomodate its residents.
Tropical Birds Coloring Book
Tropical Birds Coloring Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tropical Birds Coloring Book write by Lucia De Leiris. This book was released on 1984-01-01. Tropical Birds Coloring Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Forty-four drawings, with descriptive notes, of a variety of tropical birds, which may be colored or painted.
