A Biologist Abroad
About this book
A professional biologist with wide experience of working both in the UK and overseas, Rory Putman takes us with him on working trips to Iceland, East Africa, Nigeria and Indonesia, introducing us to the countries and their people, their natural history, and explaining some of the wildlife issues which have prompted himself and his colleagues to travel there in the first place. The stories cover episodes from more than four decades of working as a jobbing biologist overseas.The understanding required to solve problems and seek solutions to particular issues related to management and conservation of wildlife means that in some way the observer becomes much more intimately engaged, and perhaps gains a different perspective of the country and its culture than might be apparent to a more casual 'outside' onlooker. To some extent, that deeper involvement enables Rory Putman to give the reader more of an inside view and introduction to the countries and their wildlife from a wholly personal perspective.Like many other enthusiastic naturalists, the author enjoyed experiencing new habitats and seeing wonderful and exotic species on his travels and this engaging book will carry the reader along on the journey.
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Table of contents
- Preface and Acknowledgements
- Untitled
- Prologue
- One As far as Fossrófulækur
- TWO Fossrófulækur: whooper swans and a few pinkfeet
- THREE Asgard and an unexpected journey
- FOUR Heiðagæs
- FIVE To catch a goose
- BOOK 2 African horizons
- ONE Arrival in East Africa
- TWO Masai Mara to the Serengeti Plains
- THREE Arusha
- FOUR Game ranch at Galana
- FIVE Christmas on the Equator
- SIX Go west, young man!
- SEVEN Borno State
- EIGHT Problems with overgrazing
- NINE Pomp and Circumstance
- BOOK 3 Indonesian adventure
- ONE Arrival in Baluran
- TWO Bekol and Bama
- THREE Muntjak and monkeys
- FOUR A dangerous dilemma
- Afterword
- Untitled
