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Books with author Kate Jackson Bedford

  • Seashores

    Kate Jackson Bedford

    Library Binding (Creative Co, July 30, 2005)
    Presents information on the animals, plants, and general characteristics of seashores.
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  • Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

    Kate Jackson

    eBook (Harvard University Press, June 30, 2009)
    In 2005 Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. This book is Jackson's unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis—coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest.
  • Plastics

    Kate Jackson Bedford

    Library Binding (Creative Co, July 30, 2005)
    Discusses what plastic is and how it is made, what is made from plastics, and problems plastics cause for the environment.
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  • Plastic

    Kate Jackson Bedford

    Hardcover (Watts Pub Group, April 30, 2005)
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  • Wood: Text on Two Levels

    Kate Jackson Bedford

    Library Binding (Creative Co, July 30, 2005)
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  • Vikings

    Kate Jackson Bedford

    Paperback (Hachette Children's Group, May 1, 2011)
    This series allows you to explore the past through the eyes of a child. Discover what it was like to to go to school, play and grow up during some of the most exciting periods of history. 'Vikings' offers a look at how Norse children lived through the use of images, artefacts and feature boxes, allowing the reader to travel back in time.
  • Rivers and Lakes

    Kate Jackson Bedford

    Library Binding (Stargazer Books, Jan. 1, 2007)
    Describes where rivers and lakes are found, how they are formed, and why they are important.
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  • Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

    Kate Jackson

    Paperback (Harvard University Press, May 1, 2010)
    In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her.Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is Jackson’s unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis―coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest.The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and Jackson’s mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist there―a crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakes―and that there’s a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle.
  • Mean and Lowly Things: Snakes, Science, and Survival in the Congo

    Kate Jackson

    Hardcover (Harvard University Press, April 30, 2008)
    In 2005 Kate Jackson ventured into the remote swamp forests of the northern Congo to collect reptiles and amphibians. Her camping equipment was rudimentary, her knowledge of Congolese customs even more so. She knew how to string a net and set a pitfall trap, but she never imagined the physical and cultural difficulties that awaited her. Culled from the mud-spattered pages of her journals, Mean and Lowly Things reads like a fast-paced adventure story. It is Jackson’s unvarnished account of her research on the front lines of the global biodiversity crisis—coping with interminable delays in obtaining permits, learning to outrun advancing army ants, subsisting on a diet of Spam and manioc, and ultimately falling in love with the strangely beautiful flooded forest. The reptile fauna of the Republic of Congo was all but undescribed, and Jackson’s mission was to carry out the most basic study of the amphibians and reptiles of the swamp forest: to create a simple list of the species that exist there—a crucial first step toward efforts to protect them. When the snakes evaded her carefully set traps, Jackson enlisted people from the villages to bring her specimens. She trained her guide to tag frogs and skinks and to fix them in formalin. As her expensive camera rusted and her Western soap melted, Jackson learned what it took to swim with the snakes—and that there’s a right way and a wrong way to get a baby cobra out of a bottle.
  • Greeks

    Kate Jackson Bedford

    Paperback (Hachette Children's Group, May 1, 2011)
    A look at historical periods through the experiences of children of the era.
  • Rainforests

    Kate Jackson Bedford

    Library Binding (Creative Co, July 30, 2005)
    Book by Bedford, Kate Jackson
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  • Vikings

    Kate Jackson Bedford, Fiona MacDonald

    Hardcover (Franklin Watts Ltd, )
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