Sarapiqui Chronicle - A Naturalist in Costa Rica
by Young, Allen M
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 1560980141
- ISBN 13
- 9781560980148
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. A few illustrations, octavo, pp xviii, 361, an owner's small signature on the front endpaper, otherwise very clean internally, green cloth very slightly marked, the binding leaning very slightly, a good copy in dustwrapper. [The author combines elements of autobiography, natural science, and travel, recounting his many trips to the jungles of Costa Rica. An insect ecologist, he focuses on the insect life teeming in the northeastern rainforests.. First Edition. Good/Good.
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- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020378
- Title
- Sarapiqui Chronicle - A Naturalist in Costa Rica
- Author
- Young, Allen M
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1560980141
- ISBN 13
- 9781560980148
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- butterflies. lepidoptera.insect.ecology.
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Entomology; Travel; Natural History;
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