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Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
73 pages
Description
"In this addition to the Scientists in the Field series, readers join scientists as they tackle something unusual in the world of ecosystems: colonization. Not a colonization by people, but one of cells, seeds, spores, and other life forms that blow in, fly in, float in, and struggle to survive on the beautiful but harsh new island of Surtsey."--
2) Galapagos
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (39 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin as she explores 3,000 feet beneath the ocean, near the Galapagos islands, to collect rare and unusual species for study.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
19 CDs (24 hrs. 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In The Song of the Dodo, we follow Quammen's keen intellect through the ideas, theories, and experiments of prominent naturalists of the last two centuries. We trail after him as he travels the world, tracking the subject of island biogeography, which encompasses nothing less than the study of the origin and extinction of all species. Why is this island idea so important? Because we live in an age when human activity is chopping all of Earth's landscapes...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the unspoiled wilderness of Tierra del Fuego, an island at the southern tip of Patagonia in South America. Take a journey to this subantarctic region that is home to Magellanic penguins, elephant seals, right whales, guanacos, etc.
6) Nim's Island
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nim Rusoe is a young girl who inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates, via e-mail, with the reclusive author of the novel she has been reading. Nim's existence mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from the island, Nim gets Alexandra to come to her...
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