Insects Of The Pacific World
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: 2nd pr
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark contribution to entomological science, Insects of the Pacific World stands as an authoritative survey of the extraordinary insect fauna inhabiting one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Written by C.H. Curran of the American Museum of Natural History, this comprehensive volume systematically catalogues and describes the remarkable insect life of the Pacific, guiding readers through a vast zoological landscape teeming with species found nowhere else on the planet. Published in the immediate aftermath of World War II — a conflict that brought the Pacific theatre into sharp global focus — this work carries both scientific and historical resonance, arriving at a moment when Western interest in the Pacific region was at an unprecedented high. Curran's prose is precise and authoritative, reflecting decades of curatorial expertise, and the text instructs both the specialist and the informed naturalist with equal clarity. A testament to mid-20th-century natural history scholarship, this volume leaves one wondering just how many extraordinary creatures still await discovery beneath the canopy of the Pacific world.
Author: C.H. Curran
Format: Hardback
Published: 1946, The Macmillan Company
Genre: Zoology
Edition: 2nd pr
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good condition
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Markings: Previous owner
A landmark contribution to entomological science, Insects of the Pacific World stands as an authoritative survey of the extraordinary insect fauna inhabiting one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth. Written by C.H. Curran of the American Museum of Natural History, this comprehensive volume systematically catalogues and describes the remarkable insect life of the Pacific, guiding readers through a vast zoological landscape teeming with species found nowhere else on the planet. Published in the immediate aftermath of World War II — a conflict that brought the Pacific theatre into sharp global focus — this work carries both scientific and historical resonance, arriving at a moment when Western interest in the Pacific region was at an unprecedented high. Curran's prose is precise and authoritative, reflecting decades of curatorial expertise, and the text instructs both the specialist and the informed naturalist with equal clarity. A testament to mid-20th-century natural history scholarship, this volume leaves one wondering just how many extraordinary creatures still await discovery beneath the canopy of the Pacific world.