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Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America

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	Tropical Nature: Life and Death in the Rain Forests of Central and South America
	by Adrian Forsyth and Ken Miyata Sales Rank: 28397	List Price: ~~$14.00~~ $11.20 At Amazon on 9-12-2008

Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Touchstone January 29, 1987 Language: English ISBN-10: 0684187108 ISBN-13: 978-0684187105 Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 8 ounces *Product Review* E. O. WilsonTropical Nature is superior by virtue of its freshness and authority. It is an account of the extraordinary richness of the tropical forests by two gifted young biologists who have recently experienced it and are experts on their subject. They write with the crispness of journalists sending dispatches from the field. Ernst MayrCombines excellent science, often based on original observations, with a warm sympathy for creatures big and small. A worthy successor to the writings of the great naturalists of the American tropics. I know of no better introduction to tropical biology. NewsweekTropical Natureseeks to provoke curiosity about the forests -- not just provide facts about them -- and succeeds splendidly.Tropical Nature evokes the magic and wonder of a world completely contained within itself. SmithsonianIt invites an appreciation of biology as few other books do and does so with extraordinary grace and humor. Philadelphia Inquirerone of the best natural-history books in recent years. Lyrical, richly detailed and delightful to read. Scientific AmericanIn 17 chapters, each a brief essay on tropical nature observed, these two young field biologists have made a model of contemporary natural history, cheerfully speculative, concerned as much with large pattern as with diversity, chemically informed, thoroughly ecological and Darwinian to the core. *Product Review* Philadelphia Inquirer one of the best natural-history books in recent years. Lyrical, richly detailed and delightful to read.
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