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Autore |
Novotny Vojtech |
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Titolo |
Notebooks from New Guinea [[electronic resource] ] : field notes of a tropical biologist / / Vojtech Novotny ; translated from the Czech by David Short ; illustrated by Benson Avea Bego |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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1-383-04608-5 |
1-282-26865-1 |
9786612268656 |
0-19-156828-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (269 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ecology - Papua New Guinea |
Butterflies - Papua New Guinea |
Plants - Papua New Guinea |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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