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Mean and Lowly Things : Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2008Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674039025
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mean and Lowly ThingsDDC classification:
  • 597.96096724
LOC classification:
  • QL31
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. How It All Started -- 2. Back to the Congo -- 3. In Limbo -- 4. The Flooded Forest -- 5. Neighbors, Nets,and Nothing -- 6. The Red Snake -- 7. A Bottle of Snakes -- 8. A Day of Monsters -- 9. Time to Go -- 10. Red Tape Revisited -- 11. Planning My Return -- 12. Back to the Likouala -- 13. This Is Impongui -- 14. Snake Medicine -- 15. Making Herpetologists -- 16. The Home Stretch -- 17. A Stressful Day -- 18. Kende Malamu -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: In 2005 Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. This book is an account of her research on the front lines of the biodiversity crisis--coping with endless delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun army ants, subsisting on Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the forest.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- 1. How It All Started -- 2. Back to the Congo -- 3. In Limbo -- 4. The Flooded Forest -- 5. Neighbors, Nets,and Nothing -- 6. The Red Snake -- 7. A Bottle of Snakes -- 8. A Day of Monsters -- 9. Time to Go -- 10. Red Tape Revisited -- 11. Planning My Return -- 12. Back to the Likouala -- 13. This Is Impongui -- 14. Snake Medicine -- 15. Making Herpetologists -- 16. The Home Stretch -- 17. A Stressful Day -- 18. Kende Malamu -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

In 2005 Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. This book is an account of her research on the front lines of the biodiversity crisis--coping with endless delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun army ants, subsisting on Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the forest.

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