Members Promotions
The winners of last edition’s competition, a copy of Tom Kevill-Davies’ The Hungry Cyclist (Collins), are Marlo Perry (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Ruth Olinger (Texas, US), Sarah Cannon (Scotland, UK), Claudia Schwenger (Toronto, Canada), Don Hunt (California, US).
Thanks everyone for entering!
Odyssey Publications and SAE are giving away 5 copies of the latest edition of Galápagos: A Natural History Guide!
“…For cruisers, this is, by far, the best Galápagos guide on the market.
Photos are tantalizing as well as truly informative; nature info is
detailed enough for a botany text…”—New York Daily News
To be one of the lucky five readers, just send your name and the answer to the question below to magazine@saexplorers.org
Q: What is your favorite section of the SAE magazine, and what would you change?
Winners will be picked at random and notified by email on December 28, 2009. Prize includes postage.
The SAE Review:
The difference between Odyssey Books & Guide’s Galápagos: A Natural History Guide and other guidebooks on the famed islands, is that this publication focuses on what most people go to the Galapagos for: wildlife, wildlife and more, wildlife. With detailed descriptions of each species, and each island, this book is the essential travelling companion.
The author Pierre Constant has in depth knowledge of everything Galápagos. He is a French-born naturalist who has a Masters in geology. And what makes him so especially valuable as an author of this type of book, is that he is a permanent resident of the islands. New additions to this guide are more photographs skillfully taken by Constant (there are over 180 color photographs featured).
Galápagos: A Natural History Guide explores the geological history of the islands, the history of humans on them as well as visitor sites and local villages. As to be expected with a guide like this, a large chunk of the book looks at the amazing land, air and sea animals that are native to this area. Over 70 maps and illustrations help give a detailed account of the fragile ecosystem.
This is not a ‘step-by-step guide to backpacking’ in the islands, so if that’s what you are looking for you will be disappointed, but as most people tend to visit the islands to understand and experience the local fauna and flora, this intelligently written book should be a must-have on their lists.
Odyssey Books & Guides specialize in promoting areas that are for some reason or another off the beaten track, so you’ll find a guidebook to Bhutan as well as Uzbekistan among their publications. They are simply well researched, unique guides with specialized authors.
Written by Lucy Cousins (magazine@saexplorers.org)
Category: Members Promotions
