Product Description: Every year a quarter of a million well-heeled, well-read travelers take the holiday of a lifetime to the Galapagos. John Hickman presents an intriguing cast of characters, from Incas to whalers, pirates to Robinson Crusoe's, the original Swiss Family Robinson and the revered Charles Darwin...read more

Product Description: A country of contrasts, full of wilderness and unusual wildlife, New Zealand is an under-explored corner of Australasia.  This new addition to the Bradt wildlife series, illustrated with full-color photography throughout, offers the opportunity for visitors to discover curiosities such as New Zealand’s emblematic but shy Kiwi...read more

Product Description: The Galápagos is a truly special place. Unlike the rest of the world's archipelagoes, it still has 95 percent of its prehuman quota of species. Wildlife of the Galápagos is the most superbly illustrated and comprehensive identification guide ever to the natural splendor of these incomparable islands--islands today threatened by alien species and diseases that have diminished but not destroyed what so enchanted Darwin on his arrival there in 1835...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)