Living Treasure
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NOT since William Beebe has a naturalist spoken with such gusto, humor, and enthusiastic appreciation of hisjob. To Ivan Sanderson of the British Museum, "collecting" is more than a profession; it is a way of...
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Living Treasure
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NOT since William Beebe has a naturalist spoken with such gusto, humor, and enthusiastic appreciation of hisjob. To Ivan Sanderson of the British Museum, "collecting" is more than a profession; it is a way of life, and a philosophy of life. Readers of the earlier books in his “Treasure” trilogy ("Animal Treasure" and “Caribbean Treasure") know how fascinating his narratives can be.The adventures of "Living Treasure" take place in Jamaica, British Honduras, and the Yucatan, with a remarkable side excursion to hunt wild horses in the solitary heights of Haiti. In this final “Treasure” volume, Sanderson shows the reader a little more of the underlying purposes that guide his work: the plotting of evolutionary graphs, the correlation of habitat to species type, and the investigation of “civilized" diseases among completely wild animals.But the startling, dangerous, and frequentiy l
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