New Guinea (eBook)

Nature and Culture of Earth's Grandest Island

Bruce M. Beehler, Tim Laman (Autoren)

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2020
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19991-7 (ISBN)

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An enthralling exploration of the biologically richest island on Earth, featuring more than 200 spectacular color images by award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim LamanIn this beautiful book, Bruce Beehler, a renowned author and expert on New Guinea, and award-winning National Geographic photographer Tim Laman take the reader on an unforgettable journey through the natural and cultural wonders of the world's grandest island. Skillfully combining a wealth of information, a descriptive and story-filled narrative, and more than 200 stunning color photographs, the book unlocks New Guinea's remarkable secrets like never before.Lying between the Equator and Australia's north coast, and surrounded by the richest coral reefs on Earth, New Guinea is the world's largest, highest, and most environmentally complex tropical island-home to rainforests with showy rhododendrons, strange and colorful orchids, tree-kangaroos, spiny anteaters, ingenious bowerbirds, and spectacular birds of paradise. New Guinea is also home to more than a thousand traditional human societies, each with its own language and lifestyle, and many of these tribes still live in isolated villages and serve as stewards of the rainforests they inhabit.Accessible and authoritative, New Guinea provides a comprehensive introduction to the island's environment, animals, plants, and traditional rainforest cultures. Individual chapters cover the island's history of exploration; geology; climate and weather; biogeography; plantlife; insects, spiders, and other invertebrates; freshwater fishes; snakes, lizards, and frogs; birdlife; mammals; paleontology; paleoanthropology; cultural and linguistic diversity; surrounding islands and reefs; the pristine forest of the Foja Mountains; village life; and future sustainability.Complete with informative illustrations and a large, detailed map, New Guinea offers an enchanting account of the island's unequalled natural and cultural treasures.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.5.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 152 color photos. 1 map.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Fotografieren / Filmen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Botanik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Schlagworte: 60 minutes • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Amphibians • Arthropod • Aru Islands • Australia (continent) • Australian Plate • Baliem Valley • Bandicoot • Bensbach Village • biodiversity • biologist • Bird Watching • Bismarck Sea • Borneo • bowerbird • cassowary • Cenderawasih Bay Islands • conservation • Conservation International • continental crust • Continental fragment • coral reef • coral reef fish • Cordillera • Craton • crustacean • deforestation • D’Entrecasteaux Islands • Drought • Dry season • echidnas • ecosystem • endemism • Ernst Mayr • exotic birds • Fauna • Fauna of New Guinea • Finisterre Range • Fly River • Foja Mountains • gift for bird lovers • gift for bird watchers • gift for nature lovers • Gondwana • Grassland • guide to Papua New Guinea • Herpetology • honeyeater • Huon Peninsula • Indonesia • indonesian archipelago • indonesia travel guide • insect • Introduction • Invertebrate • island arc • Jared Diamond • Lake Sentani • Logging • Louisiade Islands • Maluku Islands • Mamberamo River • Mammal • Mangrove • Marine Life • marsupial • Megapode • Melanesia • Milne Bay • Miocene • MONOTREME • Mountain • Mountain ecosystems • mountain range • Mount Hagen • Mount Lamington • Mount Wilhelm • Myrtaceae • Natural History • New Caledonia • New Guinea • New Guinea guide • new guinea highlands • new guinea travel guide • North America • Northern Australia • Oceanic Crust • Ornithology • Pacific Ocean • pacific plate • Pandanus • Papua New Guinea • Philippines • Plate Tectonics • Pleistocene • Popondetta • Port Moresby • Possum • Publication • Puncak Jaya • Puncak Trikora • Pythons • Rainforest • Raja Ampat Islands • Reptiles • Rondon Ridge • Schouten Islands • Sediment • Sepik • Shrub • Southeast Asia • Star Mountains • Sundaland • Swamp • sweet potato • thylacine • Tim Laman • Torres Strait • Trans Fly • travel guide for Papua New Guinea • Tree-kangaroo • Trobriand Islands • tropical rain forest • Varirata National Park • Vertebrate • Vitiaz Strait Islands • wallaby • Wallacea • Western New Guinea • wildlife • Woodlark Islands
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19991-4 / 0691199914
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19991-7 / 9780691199917