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Galapagos, a traveler's introduction, text & photos by Wayne Lynch

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Galapagos, a traveler's introduction, text & photos by Wayne Lynch

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (page 141) and index

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illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Galapagos

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

text & photos by Wayne Lynch

Sub title

a traveler's introduction

Summary

In this richly illustrated tour of the Galapagos, world renowned photographer and naturalist Wayne Lynch captures the unique wildlife living here, including the Galapagos tortoise, the marine iguana, the flightless cormorant, the blue-footed booby and the magnificent frigatebird. The biology of the Galapagos Islands has arguably been studied more than any other archipelago in the world. Charles Darwin visited the Galapagos Islands for just five weeks in 1835 and then spent the next several decades at his home in England trying to build the scientific proof he needed to support his famous theory of evolution by natural selection, one of the most important ideas in all of science. Visited by both amateur and professional naturalists from around the world, the Galapagos comprise 13 main islands and 6 smaller islands located in the eastern Pacific Ocean 605 miles (973 km) off the coast of South America. Book jacket

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