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Thailand: Traveller's Wildlife Guide (Travellers' Wildlife Guides) Review

Anything but typical, Traveller's Wildlife Guide is the most comprehensive `all-in-one' natural history manual available for Thailand. Other books focus on individual taxa like birds, mammals, reptiles or orchids, still others on specific locations like national parks or beaches. Traveller's Wildlife Guide is different. Realizing that most of us have no room in our backpacks for a whole library, Pearson and Beletsky have written with great care, synthesizing and distilling Thailand in a manageable and useful field guide. They have taken a broad brush to the country's fauna, flora, ecosystems, and protected areas. The result is a work useful for both the casual traveler and the seasoned naturalist.

I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in Thailand's natural history.

Bill Schaedla
Country Director, WWF Thailand Office
Honorary Editor, Natural History Bulletin of the Siam Society

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ISBN13: 9781566566940
Condition: New
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Thailand: Traveller's Wildlife Guide (Travellers' Wildlife Guides) Overview

Thailand holds a special place in the minds of the world's nature-lovers as a paradise of splendid tropical forests, untrammeled ocean beaches, and spectacular underwater coral grottos. Nature travellers to Thailand want to experience these stunning habitats and catch glimpses of exotic wildlife-gibbons and elephants, hornbills and storks, gliding lizards and cobras, brightly colored reef fishes and marine invertebrates. In this book is all the information you need to find, identify, and learn about Thailand's magnificent animal and plant life.

*Identifying and location information on the most frequently seen animals.

*Full-color illustrations of nearly 600 of Thailand's most common insects, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and coral fish.

*Up-to-date information on the ecology, behavior, and conservation of the animals.

*Information on Thailand's habitats and on the most common plants you will encounter.

*Brief descriptions of Thailand's most frequently visited parks and reserves.

Easy-to-carry, entertainingly written, beautifully illustrated - you will want to have this book as constant companion on your journey.

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Customer Reviews

Thailand: Traveler's Wildlife Guide - James Gutermuth -
Not recommended. I wanted a dense book to take with me to Thailand that would allow me to identify a fair number of birds, plants, insects, etc. However, the number of plants in this book is too small to be helpful and the illustrations aren't a good substitute for photographs. It would be better to get a plant book, a bird book, etc. and just carry around half a dozen books, which I eventually did, having not successfully identified more than 1 bird, using this book.

An excellent overview of wildlife in Thailand and beyond - R. A. Butler - California, USA
Biologists Pearson and Beletsky offer an excellent overview to wildlife in Thailand and neighboring countries. "Thailand: Traveller's Wildlife Guide" provides descriptions on the 600 amphibians, birds, reptiles, mammals, and reef fish that you are mostly likely to see as well as background information on the ecology of forests and other ecosystems in the country. Highly recommended.

Util però poca cosa més - Josep Crusafont - Catalunya
La tipica "Traveller's Wildlife Guide": interessant per la seva descripció de les espècies més comunes, però amb poc contingut descriptiu dels espais naturals i els millors llocs on trobar-les. No més que un punt de partida per organitzar un viatge naturalista

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