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Travels on the Edge: A Naturalist's Notes from the Back of Beyond
Adventure tales told, with humanity and warmth, about some of the world's most remote and fascinating places...
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Adventure tales told, with humanity and warmth, about some of the world's most remote and fascinating places and their inhabitants
For almost fifty years, Robert McCracken Peck has traveled the world as the official photographer, historian, and chronicler of scientific expeditions from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, America's oldest natural history institution, now part of Drexel University. He has discovered three new frogs in the Andes, collected several new species of fish on the Orinoco River, and helped study little-known insects in rarely visited parts of Africa and the Caribbean. He has made seven extensive expeditions to Mongolia to study its wildlife and document the fast-changing lives of its nomadic herdsmen. He has witnessed the fall of the Berlin Wall, traveled with camel caravans across the Gobi Desert, faced down headhunters in Ecuador, and been put under house arrest in China. Travels on the Edge is a collection of stand-alone, but related, essays recounting his remarkable experiences. Lavishly illustrated, the book not only carries readers to some of the most remote and inaccessible parts of the world but also celebrates the challenges and joys of scientific research. Its author brings a rich human perspective to regions few people have had a chance to explore and brings the people and wildlife he found there to life through his writing and photos.Author: Robert McCracken Peck
Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781606181539
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 08/01/2026
About the Author
Historian, naturalist, writer, and world traveler, Robert McCracken Peck holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a master of arts degree from the Winterthur Program in American Cultural History, University of Delaware. Widely published, Peck is the author of Land of the Eagle: A Natural History of North America, the companion volume to the eight-part BBC/PBS television series of the same title. It was named one of the most notable natural history/science books of the year by the New York Times Book Review. As Senior Fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, he served as chronicler, historian, and photographer of many scientific research expeditions around the world. In 1988 a new species of South American frog, one of three he discovered in the upper Amazon basin in Ecuador, was named in his honor.
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