Galapagos The Flow of Wildness Author:Eliot Furness Porter, Kenneth Brower, et. al. Boxed set: Volume 1: Discovery, Volume 2: Prospect. Extensive color photographs. "This is a book in praise of islands. Its two volumes are an investigation of the virtues of islands as points of reference, both scientific and poetic. They are concerned with islands as laboratories, refuges, genetic resevoirs, and places for future discovery. ... more » The book arose from the concern for islands and the fragile life forms they have evolved, the gentle insular wildness that is vanishing so rapidly around the world. Its concern is for both oceanic islands like the Galapagos, and for islands isolated in other ways--for islands of life..."« less