02773nam 2200625Ia 450 991045486860332120200520144314.01-282-26865-197866122686560-19-156828-7(CKB)1000000000788809(EBL)472076(OCoLC)437414430(SSID)ssj0000212392(PQKBManifestationID)11184572(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212392(PQKBWorkID)10137413(PQKB)11399656(MiAaPQ)EBC472076(Au-PeEL)EBL472076(CaPaEBR)ebr10329650(CaONFJC)MIL226865(EXLCZ)99100000000078880920090204d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNotebooks from New Guinea[electronic resource] field notes of a tropical biologist /Vojtech Novotny ; translated from the Czech by David Short ; illustrated by Benson Avea BegoOxford ;New York Oxford University Press20091 online resource (269 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-960964-0 0-19-956165-6 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; IndexThis 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 EcologyPapua New GuineaButterfliesPapua New GuineaPlantsPapua New GuineaElectronic books.EcologyButterfliesPlants577.09953578.09953Novotny Vojtech911526MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454868603321Notebooks from New Guinea2264223UNINA