Ancient Lakes
Subtitle: Biodiversity, Evolution and Ecology (Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 31) (Advances in Ecological Research)
Contributors: Andrew Rossiter (Editor); Hiroya Kawanabe (Editor)
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: July 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 700
ISBN-13: 9780120139316
First sentence: So much is now known about the ancient lakes of Africa - Malawi, Tanganyika and Victoria - that it comes almost as a shock to realize that even the existence, and certainly the true whereabouts, of these enormous lakes was unknown to the outside world until after the middle of the nineteenth century.