Notebooks from New Guinea : field notes of a tropical biologist /

Notebooks from New Guinea : field notes of a tropical biologist /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Novotny, Vojtech.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 256 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Ecology -- Papua New Guinea. Butterflies -- Papua New Guinea. Botany -- Papua New Guinea. Botany. Butterflies. Ecology. Papua New Guinea. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198049

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ISBN:	9780191568282 0191568287 9780199561650 0199561656
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Novotny, Vojtech. Notebooks from New Guinea. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009 9780199561650 0199561656

Table of 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.