Pantanal & Llanos

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Popis zboží: Hard cover / jacket Format 30 x 25 cm 264 pp 100 large-scale photographs (spreads) 30 large-scale illustrations (spreads) Concise text (29 chapters) The book – pictorial encyclopaedia – shows the unique ... Hard cover / jacket Format 30 x 25 cm 264 pp 100 large-scale photographs (spreads) 30 large-scale illustrations (spreads) Concise text (29 chapters) The book – pictorial encyclopaedia – shows the unique ecosystem of the largest wetlands on Earth. Describes the life in savannas and swamps of South American tropics in their complexity, sressing the mutual coexistence of local people (cowboys) in cattle farms and enormously rich wildlife. For the first time it is shown the mutual natural background of Pantanal and Llanos. Although three thousand kilometers separate the Pantanal from the Llanos, both places are very similar. They lie on the northern (Llanos) and southern (Pantanal) edge of the Amazon Basin and the influence of Amazonia is in many regards clearly evident there, especially concerning the local fauna. The natural conditions are similar in both areas and are, to a considerable extent, dictated by the regular alternating of devastating dry and wet seasons, in which many farms are for months isolated from the surrounding world. The extensive wetlands, brimming with life and home to hundreds of thousands of caimans or pink dolphins, transform after a few months into a forlorn burial ground void of life. Lying about in the dust are the skeletons of dead fish, capybaras and cattle. But this impression is superficial and not altogether true. For many inhabitants the dry season is, on the contrary, a time of great abundance. Hundreds and thousands of wading birds gather around the drying lagoons and feast on the millions of trapped fish in the shallow mud. All the caimans have to do to satisfy their hunger is to open and close their mouths. It is also a time in which I come across migrating anacondas in the Llanos... zobrazit více