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Preface ix
Introduction 1
1 In the Rainforest 4
2 In the Zone and on the Plantation 30
3 On the Trail of Ripley and Ali 54
4 Wallace's Promised Land 84
5 Biodiversity and Intrigue across the Inner Line 105
6 Forest Gardens 128
7 Local People Really Do Count 155
8 Pitiful Scraps of Forest 181
9 Lemurs, Vangas, Chameleons, and Poverty 199
10 The Lost World 221
Epilogue 249
Bibliography 253
Index 255
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Daniel Schley
reviewed Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest on February 01, 2010
Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest
Bruce M. Beehler is an ornithologist specializing in the birds of Papa New Guinea. Lost Worlds: Adventures in the Tropical Rainforest is a memoir of his career.
I keep hoping to find another science memoir like Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin and Beehler's book comes close but still doesn't hit the mark. There are a few moments in the book that I wish were the norm for it.
For example one early chapter ends with a side note about a poisonous bird who might be the key to understanding the toxin that makes the poison dart frog so deadly. The bird eats beetles that contain a toxin nearly identical to the frog toxin. The current theory is that the frogs and the beetles eat a mold and that mold is ultimately the source of these posions.
Mostly though the book is about the places he's been and his mishaps and misadventures while trying to do his field studies. These anecdotes are nice to give a feel for what it's like to start a career but by themselves don't make for a particularly interesting science memoir.
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