Mean and Lowly Things : Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo / Kate Jackson.
2009
QL31.J23 A3 2008eb
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Title
Mean and Lowly Things : Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo / Kate Jackson.
Author
Jackson, Kate, author.
ISBN
9780674039025
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (336 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674039025 doi
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QL31.J23 A3 2008eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
597.96096724
Summary
In 2005 Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. This book is Jackson's unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis-coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
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
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