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A wildlife guide to Chile : continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez Archipelago / Sharon Chester.
- Title
- A wildlife guide to Chile : continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez Archipelago / Sharon Chester.
- Author
- Chester, Sharon R.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QL243 .C44 2008 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vi, 391 p. : col. ill., col. maps; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "This is the first comprehensive English-language field guide to the wildlife of Chile and its territories - Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez, and San Felix y San Ambrosio. From bats to butterflies, lizards to llamas, and ferns to flamingos, A Wildlife Guide to Chile covers the country's common plants and animals. The color plates depict species in their natural environments with unmatched vividness and realism. The combination of detailed illustrations and engaging, succinct, and authoritative text make field identification quick, easy, and accurate. Maps, charts, and diagrams provide information about landforms, submarine topography, marine environment, climate, vegetation zones, and the best places to view wildlife. This is an essential guide to Chile's remarkable biodiversity."--Jacket.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
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- Genre/Form
- Guidebooks
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 379) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780691129754 (cloth)
- 9780691129761 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2007039177
- OCLC
- 173502714
- SCSB-10247982
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library