Anyone who has ever made the journey to the famous Galápagos Islands will tell the prospective traveler two things: that they’ll be amazed at what they will see there (both good and, due to the high levels tourism in recent years, bad) and that they’ll need to travel with as little luggage as possible. And – sad to say – one of the things that adds weight quickly is a stack of field guides.
Fortunately, for the Galápagos-bound traveler, since 2002 an all-in-one field guide to the most commonly seen wildlife in the islands, Wildlife of the Galápagos, has been available in the Princeton Pocket Guides series of Princeton University Press. Now, for 2016, this famous field guide has been replaced by a fully updated Second Edition, Covering over 400 species of the islands’ most commonly seen birds, mammals, reptiles, invertebrates, plants, and even fish – all now identified by both their English and Spanish names – this new guide should make all other field guides superfluous on the journey.
