02842nam 2200649Ia 450 991077832490332120230721022518.01-383-04608-51-282-26865-197866122686560-19-156828-7(CKB)1000000000788809(EBL)472076(OCoLC)437414430(SSID)ssj0000212392(PQKBManifestationID)11184572(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212392(PQKBWorkID)10137413(PQKB)11399656(Au-PeEL)EBL472076(CaPaEBR)ebr10329650(CaONFJC)MIL226865(MiAaPQ)EBC472076(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 GuineaEcologyButterfliesPlants577.09953578.09953Novotny Vojtech1480764Short David345732BegoBenson AveaMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778324903321Notebooks from New Guinea3854356UNINA