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Brazil: Amazon and Pantanal (Ecotravellers' Wildlife Guides) [Paperback]

David L. Pearson (Author), Les Beletsky (Author)

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Paperback: 500 pages
Publisher: Academic Press Inc (15 Nov 2001)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0125480520
ISBN-13: 978-0125480529
Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.1 x 2.9 cm

Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,028,427 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #19 in Books > Science & Nature > Nature > Wild Animals > By Region > South & Central America & Caribbean

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A superb guide for ecotravelers visiting Brazil's Pantanal area...Written by two professional biologists in an accessible, informative style, this guide provides the information needed to find, identify, and learn about Brazil's most common insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals and fish. —BOOK NEWS (September 2002)

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Brazil: Amazon and Pantanal has all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Brazil's magnificent animal and plant life. The authors, professional biologists, selected illustrations of more than 500 of Brazil's most common insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and fish - the species you are most likely to see. In one easy-to-carry, entertainingly written, beautifully illustrated book, you will have: identifying and location information on the most frequently seen animals; up-to-date information on the ecology, behavior, and conservation of the animals; information on Brazil's habitats and on the most common plants you will encounter; brief descriptions of the most frequently visited parks and reserves in the Amazon and Pantanal regions.

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Ecotourism or ecotravel is travel to (usually exotic) destinations specifically to admire and enjoy wildlife and undeveloped, relatively undisturbed natural areas, as well as indigenous cultures. Read the first page

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Essential Background reading 3 July 2004

By Yellow Dog

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The previous review is misleading. It simply is not possible to write a field guide to the Amazon and Pantana - to catalogue the birds alone would require hundreds of pages as there are well over a thousand species. What this book does, and does very well. Is to provide background bioloogical and ecological information on the two regions, together with plates of the more common species of flora, reptiles, amphibians, mammals and birds. There are no field guides on reptiles and amphibians that I know of, but any half way decent jungle lodge (of which there are sadly few in Brazil) should have a library of more specific birding guides. If not the best is the the Collins Birds of Southern South America and Antarctica (Pantanal) and the Birds of Colombia (Princeton Univ. Press) - a very weighty volume. For mammals Emmons's Neotropical Rainforest Mammals is the best - though it doesn't cover non-forest species.

This is, however and excellent overview biological guide and is well worth getting. It is no more overly academic than a David Attenborough documentary and it doesn't insult its readership, many of whom are already fairly well informed about wildlife. It lacks only information on the better lodges and tour companies. See the Cadogan Amazon Guide (Alex & Gardenia Robinson) for these.

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Not a Field Guide 16 Nov 2002

By John Mathisen

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This book is an academic treatise rather than a field guide. If you are a specialist wanting more knowledge, it may well be the book for you. What it is not is a pocket field guide for the general traveller visiting Brazil.

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not up to the job 18 April 2008

By E. A. Morley

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It is surprising there are so few field guides for such an important country with key regions like the Pantanal. This book tries to be a reference book and field guide and fails with both. It would have been better split into two volumes as its pretty heavy to carry around. It does give some insight into the birds and animals of the region but is far too limited for the serious naturalist.

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