Mean and Lowly Things - Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

Informationen zum Autor Kate Jackson is Associate Professor of Biology at Whitman College. Klappentext In 2005 Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. This book is an account of her research on the front lines of the biodiversity crisis¿coping with endless delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun army ants, subsisting on Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the forest. Zusammenfassung In 2005 Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. This book is an account of her research on the front lines of the biodiversity crisis—coping with endless delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun army ants, subsisting on Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the forest. Inhaltsverzeichnis * Prologue * How It All Started * Back to the Congo * In Limbo * The Flooded Forest * Neighbors! Nets! and Nothing * The Red Snake * A Bottle of Snakes * A Day of Monsters * Time to Go * Red Tape Revisited * Planning My Return * Back to the Likouala * This Is Impongui * Snake Medicine * Making Herpetologists * The Home Stretch * A Stressful Day * Kende Malamu * Epilogue * Acknowledgments * Index

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kate Jackson, Jackson Kate
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.05.2010
• EAN: 9780674048423
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04842-3
• Seiten: 336
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie; Ratgeber > Natur; Reise > Reiseberichte, Reiseerzählungen; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, NATURE / Animals / Reptiles & Amphibians, Travel writing, Biology, life sciences, Wildlife: reptiles and amphibians: general interest, Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville)