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Brand: W. Aaron Vandiver
EAN: 9781952782480
Categoria: Libri e riviste

In this explosive debut novel, W. Aaron Vandiver takes readers into the South African Bush, with its stunning landscapes, its dazzling and deadly wildlife, and its dark underbelly of violence. Against this dramatic backdrop, Under a Poacher's Moon tells an unflinching story of two people who fight desperately to save Africa's wildlife, sometimes with tragic unintended consequences, as they search for passion and meaning in a dangerous and unpredictable world.\n\n Anna Whitney travels to Mzansi, a remote safari lodge located deep in the wilds of South Africa, hoping to get as far away from home and her troubled life as possible. The perilous beauty of the land captures her imagination, but when she hears the haunting late-night cries of an injured rhino, her escapist fantasies collide with brutal reality. She and Chris, a safari guide wrestling with his own secret demons, find themselves embroiled in a war on Africa's wildlife.\n\n They are pulled into a struggle that brings them face-to-face with shocking acts of violence, rogue officials, armed gangs, vicious wild predators, and their own deepest fears. It is a conflict that threatens to destroy them, or lead them toward a new and better life together.

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Brand: David W. Lazaroff;philip C. Rosen;charles H. Jr. Lowe
EAN: 9780816524952
Categoria: Libri e riviste

Even in paradise, one needs to be mindful of what's underfoot. The Sabino Canyon Recreation Area is a desert oasis in the Santa Catalina Mountains north of Tucson, a rich repository of wildlife and a favorite destination for Tucsonans and visitors for more than a century. This book presents annotated and illustrated descriptions of the amphibians and reptiles found at Sabino Canyon and an overview of their natural environment. Representing a study spanning nearly twenty-five years, it documents their present and past distribution and examines environmental and herpetofaunal change due to physical, biological, and human impact on species and habitats. In this first publication to describe Sabino Canyon's biota in scientific detail, three expert authors pool their knowledge to provide a detailed discussion of ecological changeespecially as a consequence of drought, flooding, the introduction of exotic species, and direct human impact. Suburbia has arrived on the canyon's doorstep, and human visitation has soared, inalterably affecting the area.\nOf particular concern, breeding habitats for amphibians were profoundly altered by flash flooding in Sabino's streams following the 2003 Aspen Fire, which ravaged large parts of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The book contains richly detailed accounts of the 57 species found at Sabino?25 snakes, 17 lizards, 8 toads and frogs, 6 turtles, and 1 salamanderemphasizing their local ecology and the behavior likely to be witnessed by visitors. Physical descriptions and numerous photographs many in colorfacilitate identification. Up-to-date distribution maps provide an essential baseline against which future researchers can measure change. Amphibians, Reptiles, and Their Habitats at Sabino Canyon is essential for anyone who seeks to understand this desert oasis, how it has changed, and how it may change in the future. Written with minimal technical jargon to make it as useful to students and visitors as it will be to scientists and resource managers, it makes a vital contribution to our understanding of creatures underfoot whose habitat we seek to share.

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Brand: Mark W. Nolting
EAN: 9780939895274
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The perfect book to take on safari—a wildlife/botany guide, phrase book, safari diary, color map directory, and wildlife checklist all in one.\n\nThis new edition of the African Safari Field Guide is the perfect book to take on safari. With often strict baggage limits, this FIVE BOOKS-IN-ONE journal provides all the information a traveler to Africa is going to need in one complete guide. It puts key safari information at the reader's fingertips and allows them to record unforgettable memories of their African adventure.\n\nThis revised and up-to-date guide includes the following valuable features, all designed to make the reader an instant authority while on safari:\n\n\n\nMore than 500 COLOR illustrations and detailed descriptions of mammals, reptiles, birds, insects and trees for easy identification.\nIllustrations of Africa's vegetation zones\nThe most comprehensive checklists of mammals and birds for recording sightings in reserves\n12 COLOR maps of Africa’s top wildlife countries\nCountry Highlights with “Best Time to Go” charts\nSwahili, Tswana, Shona, Zulu and French words, phrases and mammal names (with phonetics)\nConstellation maps of the Southern Hemisphere — and a stargazers guide\nSafari tips\nPhotography on safari\nGlossary of safari terms\nWorld Heritage sites\nSuggested reading list\n19 journal pages to record their personal safari experiences

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Brand: W.h. Hudson
EAN: 9780907871743
Categoria: Libri e riviste

The first eighteen years of William Hudson's life were spent on the Argentinian pampas. Although he was a scholarly ornithologist, every page of this book reveals a rapturous delight in the wildlife of the pampas, animal or human. He mixed with cut-throat gauchos, pursued ostriches, explored lagoons, and allowed burrowing armadillos to drag him elbow-deep into the earth.

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