Nature of the Rainforest: Costa Rica and Beyond

by Adrian Forsyth

Book Overview

A Zona Tropical Publication"The words 'tropical rainforest' may conjure up vistas populated by jaguars, brilliant macaws, and flowers amid the grandeur of towering buttressed trees. But the eager, expectant visitor is not regaled with the sight of charismatic vertebrates, gaudy birds, and luminous orchids. In the rainforest, close encounters with life that moves are usually rare but brilliant episodes; one is bedazzled for an instant and then left...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801474752
• ISBN13: 9780801474750
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Comstock Publishing
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.2" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher