Vista Nieve: The Remarkable True Adventures of an Early Twentieth Century Naturalist and His Family in Colombia, South America
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.33 (813 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0966548523 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Characters will remain etched in the hearts and minds of readers, and be remembered with great fondness, respect, and admiration. -- Ellis Yochelson, Science Books & Films, July/August 2002This most interesting and unusual combination biography/autobiography explores an area and an historic period unfamiliar to the general public. 7, 2001Delightful reading, intermixing family history with natural history; recollections of a lad interwoven with sage ecological obserations of a scientist. -- Victor and Deborah Kennedy, National Shellfisheries Association Quarterly Newsletter, May 2002. -- Kathy Sparrow, Editor, Blue Mantle Press, Press Release, Masr
. The author enjoys writing, reading, gardening, and travel. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Laboratory in Oxford, Maryland, and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Carriker has advised 17 doctoral and 18 masters students at universities, and is the past president of the American Malacological Society, the National Shellfisheries Association, and the Atlantic Estuarine Research Society. They have four grown children: Eric, Bruce, Neal,
Bert Ruiz said A lovely story of early Colombia. "Vista Nieve," by Melbourne R. Carriker is a lovely story about a remarkable naturalist and a daring coffee pioneer in the beautiful Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountain region of Colombia. To this end, the story is told from an interesting perspectivebecause the naturalist is the author's father and the da
By his side was Carmela Flye, whose tireless spirit and efficiency contributed significantly to her husband's bird and bird-lice collecting and the development and running of their own coffee plantation, Hacienda Vista Nieve, adjacent to Hacienda Cincinnati.. This is a biography of the author's maternal grandparents, Orlando and Eva Flye, from the United States, who after several failed attempts, developed a highly successful coffee plantation, Hacienda Cincinnati, on the high mountain slopes of the Sierra Nevada in northern Colombia in the early 1900s. Carriker, Jr., father of the author, who sign