De Historia Naturali Insulæ Trinitatis MDCC-MMX: Three Centuries of Natural History on Trindade Island, Brazil, With Comments on Conservation

Bilingual book in English and Brazilian Portuguese. The Trindade and Martin Vaz Archipelagos, Brazil, are relatively isolated in the South Atlantic. Up to the 20th Century, technical and scientific knowledge about Trindade was relatively scarce, consisting of weather data from the meteorological station of the Brazilian Navy, observations on the nesting of green turtles (Project TAMAR) and to some sporadic observations on geology, botany and zoology. This book compiles sources of scientific...