PDF-(BOOS)-North America\'s Galapagos: The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey

North Americas Galapagos The Historic Channel Islands Biological Survey recounts the story of a group of researchers naturalists adventurers cooks immigrants and scientifically curious teenagers who came together in the late 1930s to embark upon a series of ambitious expeditions never before or since attempted Their mission to piece together the broken shards of the Channel Islands history and evolution Californias eight Channel Islands sometimes called North Americas Galapagos each support unique ecosystems with varied flora and fauna and differing human histories The thirtythree men and women who set out to explore the islands hoped to make numerous discoveries that would go down in history along with their names More than eighty years ago a lack of funds and dearth of qualified personnel dogged the preWWII expeditions but it was only after America entered the war and the researchers were stranded on one of the islands that the survey was aborted their work left for future scientists to complete   This untold saga of adventure discovery and goals abandoned is juxtaposed against the fresh successes of a new generation of Channel Island scholars Engagingly written North Americas Galapagos illuminates the scientific process and reveals remarkable modern discoveries that are rewriting archaeological textbooks and unraveling the answer to the ageold question how and when were the Americas populated   Anyone interested in the work conducted behind closed museum doors will want to read this bookso will history buffs environmentalists scientists and general readers curious about our world Visit the authors website httpswwwchannelislandscalifornia. 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