Sarapiquí Chronicle

Allen M. Young is a curator emeritus of zoology at the Milwaukee Public Museum. He is also the author of many other books on natural history, most recently Tropical Rainforests and The Chocolate Tree: A Natural History of Cacao.

“Young . . . brings the trained eye of an entomologist and an unabashed admiration for the beauty of nature to this engaging and informative account of his experiences during twenty-one years of fieldwork in Costa Rica’s rainforests.”—Publishers Weekly“A splendid read. For newcomers to the moist tropics, and for any but the most sated old-timers, it can be commended for an entertaining account of a locality where life is lived to the full—by all species, including the human observer.”—Norman Myers, New Scientist