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9780195161779

Green Phoenix Restoring the Tropical Forests of Guanacaste, Costa Rica

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    9780195161779

  • ISBN10:

    0195161777

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-01-09
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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-One of the great environmental success stories of our time

Author Biography


William Allen is an award-winning science writer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His reporting on tropical forests has appeared in such publications as The Sciences, BioScience, and Harvard. He lives in Chesterfield, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: The Contrafuego xiii
Part I: In the Place of the Tree with Ears
The Nucleus
3(12)
Canon del Tigre
15(12)
The Ant and the Acacia
27(21)
The Tree with Ears
48(21)
The Fires of Guanacaste
69(8)
The Living Dead
77(10)
The Battle Plan
87(18)
Part II: Advancing through the World of Wounds
A Tropical Christmas Catalogue
105(15)
Earthquakes
120(18)
Little Dances
138(13)
The Clifftop and the Volcano
151(9)
Home Runs
160(15)
The Green Magician
175(12)
Touch of the Money Spider
187(14)
Part III: The Rising Phoenix
Area de Conservacion Guanacaste
201(14)
A Time of War
215(20)
The Vigilant
235(15)
Life Jackets
250(15)
Epilogue: Lessons from a Tropical Kitty Hawk 265(22)
Bibliography 287(12)
Index 299

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