Galápagos: A Brief History
Jacob P. Lundh
| Table of Contents | |||
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| Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV |
| Introduction | 7: The Whalers | 12: Floreana | 16: The War and After |
| 1: The Islands and their Names | 8: The Villamil Period | 13: Santa Cruz | 17: The Struggle for Conservation |
| 2: The Arrival of Life | 9: Briones the Pirate | 14: San Cristóbal | 18: Conflict of Interests |
| 3: The Altitudinal Zones | 10: Valdizán and Cobos | 15: Foreign Interests | |
| 4: The Discoverers | 11: Isabela | ||
| 5: The Spaniards | |||
| 6: Buccaneers and Privateers | |||
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I would like to thank my daughter, designer Ingrid Lundh, and our mutual friend photographer Erik Thallaug for their offer to help me with the copying of slides and other photographic material for these pages, which will be used in the future.—J. P. Lundh.
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