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Camping with the Prince and other tales of science in Africa

Author:Thomas A. Bass

Summary:The author writes about seven scientific expeditions he accompanied over a period of two years, from 1985 to 1987. The expeditions ranged frojm Timbuktu to the Zambezi River and cover such topics as paleoanthology, evolutionary biology, economics, ecology, medicine, insect physiology and tropical agriculture

Print Book, English, 1990

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1990

Genre:Reisebericht 1985-1987

Physical Description:xv, 304 pages ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780395415023, 0395415020

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:20418484

Subjects:

Africa Description and travel

Afrique Descriptions et voyages

Bass, Thomas A. Travel Africa

Expéditions scientifiques Afrique

Reisebericht 1985-1987

Science and civilization

Sciences et civilisation

Scientific expeditions

Scientific expeditions Africa

Subsaharisches Afrika

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Online version:

Camping with the Prince and other tales of science in Africa.

Bass, Thomas A.

Contents:

Camping with the prince

The Dudu world

Going lake

The voice of the ear

The fourth world

Missing links

Virus hunting on the Niger