When the two volume sixth edition of Walker’s Mammals of the World was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 1999, its highly respected eponymous author, Ernest P. Walker, had been dead for thirty years. Now, nineteen years later, Ronald P. Nowak continues Walker’s legacy with the publication of this new, extensively updated volume.
As one of the most talked-about destinations for both eco-tourism and adventure travel these days is the remains of the famed Inca city of Machu Picchu, it is indeed appropriate that Buteo Books, Lynx Edicions, and Barry Walker of Manu Expeditions have joined together to publish the new Field Guide to the Birds of Machu Picchu and the Cusco Region, Peru.