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Penclen Edition, 2022. 1100, 4000+ col photos, 154 maps. 330x250mm. HB. NEW. . Over 900 species illustrated. Jean Raffaelli, a French herpetologist, journalist and author, was born on July 2, 1954 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. After many years spent in Africa during his childhood with his parents, Jean fell in a total passion with Salamanders & Newts (also known as urodeles), when arriving in France at the age of 10 and first observed in local ponds these first incredible amphibians. Then, the interest toward urodeles never ended. After studying literature and foreign languages, he worked and traveled in many countries, from Moscow to Washington as journalist for the Agence France Presse, Paris (Prince Albert Londres 1995 for covering war in Chechnya) or in his beloved Central America (Honduras, Panama, Guatemala, Mexico) during the last decades. In his special field of herpetology he made fascinating discoveries on the behavior, life history, ecology, taxonomy and distribution of Newts &… Read More