Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles
Subtitle: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: September 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780226468969
Subjects: Biography: general; Ecological science, the Biosphere; Forests, rainforests; Travel writing; Ecology; Natural History; Nature; Science; Nature/Ecology; Australia; Life Sciences - Ecology - Ecosystems; Trees & Forests - Rainforests; Science / Biology; General; Life Sciences - Ecology; Anecdotes; Field work; Laurance, William F; Millaa Millaa (Qld.)
First sentence: The illuminated raindrops were like sparkling crystals.
Description: "The last traces of Australia's tropical rainforest, where the southeasterly winds bring rain to the coastal mountains, contain a unique assemblage of plants and animals, some primitive, many that are found nowhere else on Earth. And fifteen years ago, they also contained William Laurance, a budding ecologist seduced by the nature of the landscape in north Queensland.

Laurance isn't your typical scientist: he wears cut-offs instead of white coats, enjoys the occasional food fight, and isn't afraid to speak his mind, even if it gets him into trouble, as it often did in the Australian rainforest and as he recounts in his marvelous Queensland journal Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles."--BOOK JACKET.