James Lowen – Pantanal Wildlife: A Visitor's Guide to Brazil's – Bradt Travel Guides

This extensively updated second edition of Bradt’s Pantanal Wildlife remains the most user-friendly guidebook for ecotourists visiting South America’s great wetland - according to Time magazine, ‘one of the world’s greatest places’. Extending across Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay, the Pantanal is the continent’s equivalent of Africa’s Serengeti: a vast territory brimming with abundant, exciting and photogenic wildlife. The planet’s biggest wetland - 10 times larger than Florida’s Everglades, 15 times that of Botswana’s Okavango Delta - offers superlative wildlife-watching to enthrall novice and expert alike. In no other New World location can visitors see at point-blank range such a high number and variety of birds (670+ species), mammals (110+ species) and reptiles (50+ species). Alongside breathtaking gatherings of wildlife - with fur, feather and scale crammed into desiccating water bodies during the dry season - record-breakers of the natural world can be easy to spot here. Visitors