A Magic Web: The Forest of Barro Colorado Island

by Christian Ziegler and Egbert Giles Leigh

The tropical forest of Panama's Barro Colorado Island is a luxuriant community of plants and animals, pulsating with life and offering an astonishing view of nature's myriad processes. What does the forest look like? How do the activities of this forest's plants and animals create a community?
Now, in A Magic Web, photographer Christian Ziegler and ecologist Egbert Leigh invite readers to enter the marvelous world of Barro Colorado Island. This...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195143280
• ISBN13: 9780195143287
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.4" x 12.3"

Customer Reviews

Six Stars would be Better

The pictures are really extrodinary and the text is very readable and understandable. I don't tire of looking at the photos over and over.