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Wildlife of the islands
- Title
- Wildlife of the islands / William H. Amos ; color reproductions by C. Angerer & Göschl.
- Author
- Amos, William Hopkins.
- Publication
- New York : H.N. Abrams, 1980.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | QH85 .A46 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 231 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm
- Summary
- This fascinating text and many exquisite color photographs reveal the mystery of islands: Pacific islands - low coral atolls with azure lagoons, or green forested islands whose mountain pinnacles are lost in the low-flying clouds of trade winds. We are transported from the Mediterranean to the Caribbean; from the forbidding cliffs of Bonaventure Island, where hundreds of thousands of northern gannets nest on rocky ledges, to the ice-locked Antarctic, where emperor penguins nest in the dead of winter.
- Subject
- Note
- "A Chanticleer Press edition."
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Birth of an island -- Crucibles of evolution -- Polar islands -- In northern seas -- Atolls and volcanoes: the South Pacific -- An Asian galaxy -- The island continent and its neighbors -- The Indian Ocean -- Ancient islands of the Mediterranean -- Across the wide Atlantic.
- ISBN
- 0810917637
- 9780810917637
- LCCN
- 79018063
- OCLC
- ocm05239617
- 5239617
- SCSB-6699
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library