South America's National Parks: A Visitor's Guide - Softcover

Leitch, Bill; Leitch, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0898862485 ISBN 13: 9780898862485

Publisher: Mountaineers Books, 1990

Synopsis

Provides information on the visitor facilities, history, and climate of national parks in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Surinam.

About this title

From Library Journal:

There are about 160 national parks in various stages of development in South America, ranging from tourist attractions near cities to vast, remote ecological reserves. Trained as a biologist, Leitch spent several years exploring them; the result is a volume describing 32 parks accessible to the average tourist in seven nations (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Suriname). He urges foreigners to visit these sites as a way of encouraging host governments to support them--the more visitors, the more revenue to protect and operate the parks. He provides excellent summaries of natural phenomena as well as presenting the practical advice travelers need. Recommended as a handy reference work as well as a travel guide.
- Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mountaineers Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0898862485
• ISBN 13: 9780898862485
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 285