Research Catalog

Title

Islands in space and time / David G. Campbell ; designed by David Larkin.

Author

Campbell, David G.

Publication

Boston, MA : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1996.

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Details

Description

192 p. : col. ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• David G. Campbell turns an ecologist's keen eye on ten beautiful but endangered wilderness areas across the globe. He travels to the island of Moloka'i, where remnants of the true Hawaii can still be found; to Ecuador's remote, mountainous Cayambe Coca reserve; to a bay in Brazil that preserves a fragment of the once vast coastal forest; to the Flying D Ranch in Montana, where 3,300 bison roam the recovering grasslands; to the Everglades and tiny Lignumvitae Key in.
• Florida; even to the coral reefs and secret lakes of the Rock Islands of Palau in Micronesia. Campbell brings back vivid portraits of places where the rich natural mosaic of species is being preserved against great odds. He accompanies Ache tribesmen in Paraguay on an armadillo hunt, observes flamingos mating in Yucatan, listens to the wild cries of howler monkeys in Belize, and everywhere finds a diversity of interconnected life forms. At the same time, he reminds us of.
• The fragility of these refuges, their vulnerability to introduced plant and animal species and to modern practices of agriculture and industry.

Subject

• Campbell, David G. > Journeys
• Campbell, David G. > Travel
• Natural areas

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-185) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface: Earth in Middle Age -- Acknowledgments -- Molokai: the Green Heights of Paliuli -- Cayambe Coca: The Plain of Sky -- Mbaracayu: a Relict in Time -- Guaraquecaba: Island of the Ice Age -- The Mata Mountains: The Human Signature -- Rio Lagartos: The Ragged Edge of the Continent -- The Everglades: Sea of Grass -- the Flying D Ranch: Resurrection -- The Rio San Pedro: the Difference That Water Makes -- Palau: The Edge of the Void -- References.

ISBN

0395680832

LCCN

^^^96028388^

OCLC

• 35042105
• SCSB-11331916

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library