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Published on January 11, 2003
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A Very Basic Overview
This book might be a fine purchase for you if you have no idea about Samoa's fauna and just want a small, compact, and basic overview. However if you already have good, comprehensive field guides to the birds/fish/mammals of the region, and hope to find more specific information about the species in the Samoas, you will be sorely disappointed! The bulk of this...
Published on April 21, 2005 by Laszlo Wagner
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Field Guide to the Samoan Archipelago: Fish, Wildlife and Protected Areas (Paperback)
This book might be a fine purchase for you if you have no idea about Samoa's fauna and just want a small, compact, and basic overview.
However if you already have good, comprehensive field guides to the birds/fish/mammals of the region, and hope to find more specific information about the species in the Samoas, you will be sorely disappointed! The bulk of this book is a guide to randomly selected species (far from all occuring in Samoa) with minimal information and rather poor drawings of each. I found this completely useless as more species are covered in other regional field guides I have. As for descriptions of protected areas, that was another disappointment! :-( The book devotes a mere 20 (small) pages to listing these, writing no more than a few sentences of each one. There is no information on trails, facilities, likeliness of seeing certain species... in fact general travel guides to Samoa or the South Pacific offer more info! Maps? There isn't even a decent one of the entire Samoan archipelago (for a laugh, I have uploaded here a scanned image of the only one in the book), let alone of individual islands or nature reserves!!! Buying this book was a complete waste of money, and if it wasn't for the fact that I am in Europe and postage costs more than the book itself, I would send it back! :-(
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beautiful,
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This review is from: Field Guide to the Samoan Archipelago: Fish, Wildlife and Protected Areas (Paperback)
Beautiful pictures. Alot of effort and time went into this book.
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Field Guide to the Samoan Archipelago: Fish, Wildlife and Protected Areas by Meryl Rose Goldin (Paperback - October 1, 2002)
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