Princeton University Press
A Wildlife Guide to Chile: Continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernández Archipelago
Key Metrics
- Sharon Chester
- Princeton University Press
- Paperback
- 9780691129761
- 8.16 X 5.72 X 0.99 inches
- 1.73 pounds
- Nature > Animals - Wildlife
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
This is the first comprehensive English-language field guide to the wildlife of Chile and its territories--Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fern�ndez, and San F�lix y San Ambrosio. From bats to butterflies, lizards to llamas, and ferns to flamingos, A Wildlife Guide to Chile covers the country's common plants and animals. The color plates depict species in their natural environments with unmatched vividness and realism. The combination of detailed illustrations and engaging, succinct, and authoritative text make field identification quick, easy, and accurate. Maps, charts, and diagrams provide information about landforms, submarine topography, marine environment, climate, vegetation zones, and the best places to view wildlife. This is an essential guide to Chile's remarkable biodiversity.
- The only comprehensive English-language guide to Chile's common flora and fauna
- The first guide to cover Chile and its territories--Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fern�ndez, and San F�lix y San Ambrosio
- 120 full-color plates allow quick identification of more than 800 species
- Accompanying text describes species size, shape, color, habitat, and range
- Descriptions list size, distribution, and English, Spanish, and scientific names
- Information on the best spots to view wildlife, including major national parks
- Compact and lightweight--a perfect field guide
Author Bio
Sharon Chester is a natural history writer, photographer and illustrator. She was a natural history lecturer on expedition cruise ships for thirteen years. She photographed remote locations for Comstock, a stock photo agency, for many years. Her photos have appeared in magazines and books such as National and International Wildlife, Ranger Rick, and Sierra Club's "Mother Earth: Through the Eyes of Women Photographers."
She has written and illustrated several field guides to the fauna and flora of the Antarctic and South Pacific, as well as destination guides to the Arctic and North Atlantic. Ms. Chester is author and illustrator of "A Wildlife Guide to Chile" published by Princeton University Press in 2008. Her book "The Arctic Guide: Wildlife of the Far North" is scheduled for publication by Princeton University Press in 2014. Sharon and her family migrate seasonally between homes in the San Francisco Bay area and rural Illinois.
Special Interests
Fauna and flora of the polar regions and South Pacific.
Source: University of California, Berkley
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