Galapagos

Other resources

Further reading

Field guides

Galapagos Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide, 3rd edition
D. Horwell & P. Oxford, Bradt 2011
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.