Beneath the Canopy

by Kevin Schafer and Downs Matthews

Kevin Schafer's exquisite photographs offer a rare, up-close look at the beautiful and elusive creatures that make their home in the natural paradise of the Latin American rain forest. Here are species both famously difficult to photograph and too-often endangered: the spectacled bear, glass frog, giant river otter, green honeycreeper, mountain paca, yellow anaconda, and others. Captions and text give further insight into the lives of these amazing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811822435
• ISBN13: 9780811822435
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 10.1" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Astonishing color pictures from the rain forest

A very handsome book, full of beautiful color photographs of neotropical wildlife. Definitely the most captivating picture book about the rain forest that I know of. It made me even more aware of the need to preserve the incredibly rich variety of life forms on our planet.