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Subtitle: My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: February 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780300115444
Subjects: Applied ecology; Biography: general; Travel writing; Forest Ecology; History Of Science; Science; Science/Mathematics; Amazon river; Life Sciences - Ecology - Forest Ecology; Science / General; History; Life Sciences - Ecology; Scientists - General; Amazon River Region; Climatic changes; Geology, Stratigraphic; Natural history; Pleistocene
Description: "In this memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles, from the Galapagos Islands (before tourists had arrived) to the high Andes and the Darien Gap in Panama. He recounts an adventurous tale of exploration in the days before GPS and satellite mapping, and a tale no less exhilarating of his battle to disprove a hypothesis endorsed by most of the scientific community." --Book jacket.