TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paz-y-Miño-C,Guillermo
AU  - Espinosa,Avelina
TI  - Arrivals of Life to the Galápagos: From Berlanga to Darwin, Melville, and World War II 
SN  - 9781036405083
U1  - 986.65 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - World War II
KW  - Segunda Guerra Mundial
KW  - From Tomas de Berlanga to Darwin
KW  - Tomás de Berlanga a Darwin
KW  - Síntesis de Galápagos
KW  - Galapagos Synthesis
N2  - In this book, Guillermo Paz-y-Miño-C and Avelina Espinosa synthesize the events connecting the accidental discovery of the Galápagos Islands by Tomás de Berlanga in 1535 with Charles Darwin's exploration of the archipelago in 1835, Herman Melville's sketches of The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles, of 1856, and the geopolitics to control Baltra Island, or 'The Rock', where the United States established a military base from 1942 to 1946, during World War II. These themes are intertwined with discussions about the historical cartography of the Galápagos Islands, the geology of the archipelago, the hypotheses about the origins of the Galápagos terrestrial and marine organisms, and comparisons between Galápagos and other archipelagos, particularly Hawai'i. Offering over 250 figures and diagrams, this work will appeal to a broad audience, including professors in academia, college instructors, study-abroad and international field-trip leaders (with destination Galápagos), science writers, and policymakers
ER  -