| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
A Note on the English Translation; By Way of Introduction; Island of a Thousand Tongues and a Wild, Wild Landscape; Old and New Customs of a Tribal Society; How to Do Science in Papua New Guinea; In Conclusion: Travel Report; About the author; About the translator; About the illustrator; Index. |
| Summary |
This is a unique and delightfully engaging account by a leading tropical biologist of doing science at one of the last wild frontiers in the world. Vojtech Novotny is a highly respected Czech scientist. His widely cited work, of profound importance to ecology and evolution, is not done, like much modern science, in a lab full of gleaming apparatus. Instead, he chose as his 'laboratory' the remotest parts of Papua New Guinea, where he has established a research station. Supported bya team of Papuans whom he has trained up so that they can combine their wide and intimate knowledge of the plants. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Ecology -- Papua New Guinea.
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Ecology. |
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Papua New Guinea. |
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Butterflies -- Papua New Guinea.
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Butterflies. |
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Botany -- Papua New Guinea.
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Botany. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Novotny, Vojtech. Notebooks from New Guinea. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199561650 0199561656 (OCoLC)310154661 |
| ISBN |
9780191568282 (electronic book) |
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0191568287 (electronic book) |
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9780199561650 (hardback) |
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0199561656 (hardback) |
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