Moments of discovery
Subtitle: natural history narratives from Mexico and Central America
By: edited by Kevin Winker
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 401
ISBN-13: 9780813034171
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: In search of the Horned Guan  -- Miguel Alvarez del Toro; title: From rain forest to cloud forest in Mexico, Guatemala, and Costa Rica  -- Robert F. Andrle; title: Studying birds in the Sonoran Desert  -- John M. Bates; title: Back roads with Ben  -- Lula C. Coffey; title: A collecting expedition to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec  -- Walter W. Dalquest; title: Some Mexican experiences  -- Robert W. Dickerman; title: Sabbatical trip to Panama, 1970  -- Stephen E. Eaton; title: My early Mexican travels  -- Ernest P. Edwards; title: Adventure is where you find it  -- John T. Emlen, Jr.; title: An ornithological expedition to the lowland tropical rain forest of the Sierra de Los Tuxtlas, Southern Veracruz, Mexico  -- Paul D. Haemig; title: The Rancho del Cielo  -- Joyce Heck; title: Bird specimens collected at Lake Olomega, El Salvador  -- Joe T. Marshall, Jr.; title: Green mansions of Tamaulipas  -- Paul S. Martin; title: A Kekchi odyssey  -- Don Owen-Lewis; title: Civil war and rain forests in the Chimalapas  -- A. Townsend Peterson; title: Lost in the Tuxtlas  -- John H. Rappole; title: Six trips to Mexico, 1939-1950  -- Charles G. Sibley; title: Fifteen years of studying birds in El Salvador, 1966-1980  -- Walter A. Thurber; title: Recollections of Mexico: people and places  -- Dwain W. Warner; title: Studying the birds of Los Tuxlas -- Kevin Winker.