Description: "The totally charming journal of an adventurous woman field biologist. You will find yourself living and breathing with Marty Crump every step of the way. This is an odyssey as compelling as it is important".--Thomas E. Lovejoy, coauthor of "The Rediscovery of the Amazon". 16 color plates. 60 halftones. 19 maps.
Brief description:
Marty Crump is an adjunct professor of biology at Utah State and Northern Arizona Universities. She has been a herpetologist for more than fifty years, working with tropical amphibians to study parental care, reproduction, territoriality, cannibalism, and tadpole ecology. She is the author or coauthor of fourteen books, including A Year with Nature and Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. Most recently, she is editor of Lost Frogs and Hot Snakes: Herpetologists' Tales from the Field.