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Amazon expeditions : my quest for the ice-age equator /

"In this memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles, from the Galapagos Islands (before tourists had arrived) to the high Andes and the Darien Gap in Panama. He recounts an adventurous tale of exploration in the days...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Colinvaux, Paul, 1930-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2007]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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