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

by David L. Pearson (Author), Les Beletsky (Author) "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..." (more)

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Paperback: 506 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.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,081,078 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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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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4.0 out of 5 stars Essential Background reading, 3 Jul 2004

By	Yellow Dog (Brazil) - See all my reviews

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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2.0 out of 5 stars Not a Field Guide, 16 Nov 2002

By	John Mathisen (Elstead, Godalming, Surrey United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

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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2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, 17 Jul 2007

By	J. Golledge - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Brazil: Amazon and Pantanal (Travellers Wildlife Guide) (Paperback)

Much of the volume (over 50%) is taken up with lengthy introductions to the classification of the different orders of animals rather than majoring on species identification, leaving room for an even smaller coverage than might be expected. This area is so rich in wildlife that the choice of species covered will neccessarily have to be selective, but the decision to utilise a large part of the space for a natural history primer severly resticts its suitability as a field guide.

Furthermore you should not expect anything of the 'Brief descriptions of the most frequently visited parks and reserves in the Amazon and Pantanal regions' - 4 pages on the Amazon and half a page on the Pantanal does not even give room to list all the different areas, let alone suggest which might might be the best to visit for wildlife viewing or give species lists and specialities such that a traveller might plan an itinerary round their interests.

All in all a disappointing purchase which fails to serve the purpose of a good field guide for a holiday destination.

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It is surprising there are so few field guides for such an important country with key regions like the Pantanal. Read more

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