A neotropical companion: an introduction to the animals, plants, and ecosystems of the New World tropics.

New Haven: Princeton University Press, (1999 second edition).
Octavo, paperback, 451 pp. colour photographs, other illustrations.

An extraordinarily readable introduction to the American tropics, the lands of Central and South America, their remarkable rain forests and other ecosystems, and the animals and plants that live there. A substantially revised and expanded edition.