Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth by McCarthy, Dennis - 2009

Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Maps & colour plates. Second-hand copy, nice clean dust jacket, no damage to the book, no annotations.The stories of how animals and plants came to be found where they are – the story of biogeography – brings together two great theories of life and Earth: evolution and plate tectonics. Illustrated with a number of maps and some colour plates. Full number line. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. XXIV, 216 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Illustrator: Maps & colour plates. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Geography & Maps; Palaeontology; Biogeography; Ancient (BC); Animals & Birds. ISBN: 0199542465. ISBN/EAN: 9780199542468. Inventory No: 0281032. . 9780199542468