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Self-portrait by a herpetologist: Mark O’Shea, with an egg-sucker snake,
snapped himself on a recent expedition to explore Maraca, a rainforest
island in Brazil. Written by two members of the expedition, John Hemming
(director of the Royal Geographical Society, London) and James Ratter, a
botanist from the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, the book is far more than
a list of species and some beautiful photographs. They write entertainingly
of the difficulties and pleasures of studying a marginal rainforest area.