Costa Rica: Ecotraveller's Wildlife Guide - Softcover

Beletsky, Les

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0120848104 ISBN 13: 9780120848102

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 1998

Synopsis

Les Beletsky provides the tourist to South America with an invaluable handbook to natural history, ecology, and wildlife habitats. The readable, informative text along with photos and drawings will help the ecotourist to identify animals encountered on their visit. Also included are lists of wildlife reserves and other ecologically significant sites with up-to-date conservation techniques in Costa Rica. It is the only book that gives the reader a mix of natural history, ecology, conservation, species identification and site guide all in one volume. Features: * The only guide to Costa Rica to combine general ecological information with basic species identification * Plates of species with photos of typical habitats and drawings of common plants * Lists of Reserves and sites to visit * Up-to-date text on conservation in Costa Rica

About this title

About the Author

LES BELETSKY is a professional wildlife biologist and university zoology teacher. Prior to taking up writing wildlife guides, he conducted many years of field research into the ecology and behavior of birds, along the way publishing many scientific reports and writing two books. An avid ecotraveller, he visits the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Australia often. His basic view of life is that he'd rather be travelling and visiting new places and exotic locales than be doing anything else. Costa Rica, he now says, is his favorite spot on the planet. Currently he makes his home in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0120848104
• ISBN 13: 9780120848102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350