- Paperback: 344 pages
- Publisher: Bess Press (Nov 1 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1573061115
- ISBN-13: 978-1573061117
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11.6 x 1.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 363 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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#1,051,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #95 in Books > Outdoors & Nature > Field Guides > Fish
- #95 in Books > Science > Nature & Ecology > Field Guides > Fish
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Book Description
The Field Guide to the Samoan Archipelago: Fish, Wildlife, and Protected Areas is an outstanding reference book featuring descriptions and beautiful watercolor illustrations of approximately 500 species of marine (fishes, sea turtles, marine invertebrates, marine mammals, etc.) and terrestrial fauna (flying foxes, birds, skinks, geckos, land snails, etc.) that constitute the wealth of biodiversity found in the ecosystems of Samoa's coral reefs, ocean waters, sea grass beds, rain forests, mangrove forests, and wetlands. In addition it contains a chapter describing the "protected areas" (parks, reserves, and biodiversity conservation areas), as well as highlights wildlife, highlighting the critical environmental issues facing the archipelago. The only available field guide to the area, the book is a compact, colorful, easy-to-use reference, essential for visitors to the Samoan Islands
Written to enhance the archipelago’s overall natural resource management program, to heighten public awareness and support for ecosystem protection and stewardship, and to further environmental education in local schools and learning institutions, the Field Guide is an informative guidebook for tourists and other visitors to the archipelago. It is a readable reference for anyone interested in natural history and the biodiversity of the Samoan Islands, as well as an authoritative, accessible text for Samoan students.
About the Author
Rare-species biologist Meryl Rose Goldin received a B.A. degree in Biology from the State University of New York and a M.S. in Wildlife Biology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She wrote and illustrated the Field Guide when she was a volunteer in with the Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources and the National Park of American Samoa
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beautiful,
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Beautiful pictures. Alot of effort and time went into this book.
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A Very Basic Overview,
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This book might be a fine purchase for you if you have no idea about Samoa's fauna and just want a small, compact, and basic overview.However if you already have good, comprehensive field guides to the birds/fish/mammals of the region, and hope to find more specific information about the species in the Samoas, you will be sorely disappointed! The bulk of this book is a guide to randomly selected species (far from all occuring in Samoa) with minimal information and rather poor drawings of each. I found this completely useless as more species are covered in other regional field guides I have. As for descriptions of protected areas, that was another disappointment! :-( The book devotes a mere 20 (small) pages to listing these, writing no more than a few sentences of each one. There is no information on trails, facilities, likeliness of seeing certain species... in fact general travel guides to Samoa or the South Pacific offer more info! Maps? There isn't even a decent one of the entire Samoan archipelago (for a laugh, I have uploaded here a scanned image of the only one in the book), let alone of individual islands or nature reserves!!! Buying this book was a complete waste of money, and if it wasn't for the fact that I am in Europe and postage costs more than the book itself, I would send it back! :-( 0 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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beautiful,
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This review is from: Field Guide to the Samoan Archipelago: Fish, Wildlife and Protected Areas (Paperback)
Beautiful pictures. Alot of effort and time went into this book.
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