Mean and lowly things : snakes, science, and survival in the Congo / Kate Jackson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Kate, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jackson, Kate, 1972-.

Jackson, Kate.

Herpetologists--Canada--Biography.

Herpetologists.

Poisonous snakes--Congo (Brazzaville)--Anecdotes.

Poisonous snakes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In 2005 Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. This book is Jackson's unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis-coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Prologue

1. How It All Started

2. Back to the Congo

3. In Limbo

4. The Flooded Forest

5. Neighbors, Nets, and Nothing

6. The Red Snake

7. A Bottle of Snakes

8. A Day of Monsters

9. Time to Go

10. Red Tape Revisited

11. Planning My Return

12. Back to the Likouala

13. This Is Impongui

14. Snake Medicine

15. Making Herpetologists

16. The Home Stretch

17. A Stressful Day

18. Kende Malamu

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780674264687

0674264681

9780674039025

0674039025

OCLC:

442778424