Other resources
Further reading
Field guides
 Galapagos Wildlife: A Visitor’s Guide, 2nd edition
D. Horwell & P. Oxford, Bradt 2005
The most up-to-date and concise guide available with many colour photos and maps. Signed copies available direct from Select Latin America - please contact us.
Birds of Galápagos
Michael Harris, Collins 1974
Recently reprinted, for ornithologists.
A Guide to the Birds of the Galapagos Islands
I. Castro & A. Philips, Helm 1996
Galápagos: A Natural History Guide
Michael Jackson, University of Calgary 1985
Flowering Plants of the Galapagos
C. McMullen, Comstock – Cornell 1999
Wildlife of the Galapagos
Julian Fitter, Daniel Fitter, David Hosking, Collins Safari Guides 2000
A compact fieldguide of Galapagos wildlife featuring colour photographs.
General
Journal of the Voyage of HMS Beagle
Charles Darwin, John Murray 1845
The Enchanted Islands, The Galápagos Discovered
John Hickman, A. Nelson 1985
Galápagos - Key Environments
Roger Perry (ed.), Pergamon 1984
Academic.
The Beak of the Finch
Jonathan Weiner, Vintage 1995
Current evolutionary work.
A good read
My Father' Island, A Galápagos Quest
Johanna Angermeyer, Viking 1989 reprint Nelson 1998*
Galápagos; World's End
William Beebe, 1924 reprinted Dover NY 1988
The Encantadas
Herman Melville, 1940
Short stories by the author of Moby Dick.
Darwin and the Beagle
Alan Moorhead, Penguin 1971
The Galápagos Affair
John Treherne, Johnathan Cape 1983
The story of the mysterious Floreana Island.
Floreana, Post Restante
Margaret Wittmer, A. Nelson 1989
A reprint of her side of the story, originally published in 1960.
Photographic
Galápagos, Islands Born of Fire
Tui de Roy, Airlife 1998
Galápagos, Discovery On Darwin's Islands
Steadman and Zousmer, Smithsonian 1988
Galápagos, A Terrestrial and Marine Phenomenon
Paul Human, Libri Mundi 1984 reprinted 1998
Underwater Galápagos
The Fishes of Galapagos Islands
J. Grove, Stanford 1997
Reef Fish Identification GALÁPAGOS
Paul Human, New World/Libri Mundi 1993
The Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve
Oceanus Vol 30 No.2 1987
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's journal, available from CUP.
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