LODGES
Casa
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Angler’s Lodge (Yellowstone) - view
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Hotel Mockingbird Hill (Jamaica) - view
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READING
LISTS
Brazil
Grand Manan
Antartica
Olympic Peninsula
Brazil
Recommended Readings
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Field
Guides:
-
Neotropical
Rainforest Mammals: A Field Guide by Louise H. Emmons and
Francois Feer, 1997, 396 pp, ISBN 0226207218
- Brazil:
Amazon and Pantanal (Travellers Wildlife Guides) by Les Beletsy
and David L. Pearson, 2005, 491 pp, ISBN 1566565936. A
good all around field guide, not complete but a good sampling
of all fauna.
- Brazil
– Amazon and Pantanal (Ecotravellers Wildlife Guides)
by David L. Pearson, 2001, 500 pp, ISBN 0125480520 - previous
issue to that above, if you find it, it will work as well….
- A Guide
to the Birds of Venezuela. Steven Hilty, Guy Tudor, and J.A.
Gwynne. If you own this, it is very useful in Brazil, until
the long awaited field guide is ready! (NOT FOUND
ON AMAZON)
- Birds
of Southern South America and Antarctica by Martin R. De La
Pena and Maurince Rumboli, 1999, 224 pp, ISBN 0002200775
General
Wildlife:
-
Pantanal:
South America's Wetland Jewel by Russell A. Mittermeier, Monica
Barcellos Harris, Christina G. Mittermeier , Jose Maria Cardosa
da Silva, Reinaldo Lourival, Gustavo A.B. Da Fonseca, Peter
Seligman and Theo Allofs, 2005, 176 pp, ISBN 1554070902
- Smithsonian
Atlas of the Amazon. Michael Goulding, Ronaldo Barthem
and Efrem Ferreira. Smithsonian Press. 2003. 253 pp. ISBN
1588341356
- Insight
Guide Amazon Wildlife. Hans Ulrich Bernard. Insight Guide
4th ed. 370 pp. ISBN 1585736023
- Birds
in Brazil. Helmut Sick, Paul Barruel, John P. O’Neill
and Wm. Belton. Princeton Univ. Press. 1993. 932 pp. ISBN
0691085692. (note, this is not a field guide,
but an excellent reference – ‘the bible’…)
- Tropical
Nature. Adrian Forsyth and Ken Miyata. Charles Scribners
Sons, NY, 1984. ISBN 0684187108 FOR 1987 EDITION (REPRINT)
General
Brazil:
-
Insight
Guide Brazil. Insight Guides (Jane Ladle). Insight Guides
2007. 400 pp. ISBN FOR SEP 2007 EDITION IS 981258627X
- THIS EDITION WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE UNTIL SEP
15, 2007. ISBN FOR 1999 EDITION IS 0887291309.
- The
Brazilians. Joseph A. Page. Addison Wesley Pub. Co. 1996.
560 pp. ISBN 0201441918
- Traveler’s
Tales Brazil. Annette Haddad and Scott Doggett. O’Reilly
and Assoc. Pub. 1997/2004. 433 pp. ISBN 1932361057
- The
Brazil Reader: History, Culture, Politics. Amelia Simpson,
Robert M Levine, John Crocitti. 1999. Duke Univ. Press. 527
pp. ISBN 0822322900
- Lonely
Planet Brazil. Regis St. Louis, Andrew Draffen, Molly
Green, and Thomas Kohnstamm. Lonely Planet Pub. 2005. 748
pp. ISBN 1741040213 FOR 2005 - (NEW EDITION COMING
IN 2008)
- Brazilian
Portugese: Lonely Planet Phrasebook. Marcia Monje de Castro.
Lonely Planet Pub. 2003. 256 pp. ISBN 1864503807
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Grand
Manan Recommended Readings
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itinerary
- Marine
Mammals of the North Atlantic (Princeton Field Guides) by
Carl Christian Kinze. ISBN 0691113084 - 192 PP PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY PRESS (FEBRUARY 1, 2003).
- A
Field Guide to North Atlantic Wildlife: Marine Mammals, Seabirds,
Fish, and Other Sea Life by Noble S. Proctor and Patrick J.
Lynch. ISBN 0300106580 256 PP YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS (JUNE
11, 2005).
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Antarctica
Recommended Readings
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- Seabirds
of the World
- Birds
of Southern South America and Antarctica (Collins Illustrated
Checklist)
- Birds
And Mammals of the Antarctic, Subantartic And Falkland Islands
- Lonely
Planet Falklands South Georgia Island (Lonely Planet Falklands
and South Georgia Island)
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Olympic
Peninsula Recommended Readings
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Field
Guides:
- The
Shorebird Guide Richard Crossley, Kevin Karlson and Michael
O'Brien. Houghton Mifflin.
- Marine
Birds and Mammals of Puget Sound (Puget Sound Book) Tony
Angell and Kenneth C. Balcomb. University of Washington Press,
Seattle and London.
- The
Guide to Butterflies of Oregon and Washington William
Neill. Westcliffe Publishers, Englewood, CO. 2001.
- Field
Guide to the Cascades Olympics Stephen R. Whitney and
Rob Sandelin. Mountaineers Books.
- Butterflies
of the North Olympic Peninsula: A Field Guide - Egg, Caterpillar,
Chrysalis and Adult Kristi Murray Knowles. Trafford Pub.
2006. 150 pages.
- Mountain
Flowers of the Cascades and Olympics Harvey Manning, Ira
Spring, and Bob Spring. Mountaineers Books. 2002. 104 pages.
- Not
available from Amazon.com:
The Audubon Society Nature Guides Pacific Coast. Bayard
and Evelyn McConnaughey. Alfred Knoph, Inc. New York. 1988.
General
Olympic Peninsula:
-
Fragile
Majesty: The Battle for North America's Last Great Forest
Keith Ervin. Mountaineers Press, Seattle. 1989.
- Wintergreen:
Listening to the Land's Heart Robert M. Pyle. # Houghton
Mifflin Company; 1st Ed edition (March 1996).
- Olympic:
A Visitor's Companion (National Park Visitor's Companion Series
, No 5) George Wuerthner, Douglas W. Moore, and Douglas
W. Woore. Stackpole Books. 1999.
- Olympic:
Ecosystems of the Peninsula Michael Smithson. Two Bears
Press (September 1993).
- Ancient
Forests of the Pacific Northwest Elliott A. Norse. The
Wilderness Society. Island Press. 1990.
- Not
available at Amazon.com:
Geologic Guide to the Hurricane Ridge Area Olympic National
Park. Janet Scarf and John Wilkerson. Pacific Northwest
National Parks and Forests Association, Port Angeles, WA.
The
Pacific Northwest. Stephen Whitney. Sierra Club Books,
San Francisco. 1989.
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NATURE
PROFILES
Ecuador/Podocarpus
National Park: Nature Profile
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