biogeography

The thing about there not having been any snakes on the island of Ireland even before St. Patrick arrived is a nice example of the science of "biogeography." This is an area of study I find really engaging, fruitful and thought-provoking. I got hooked on this topic via David Quammen's most excellent book Song of the Dodo -- find it at UofT library (on course reserve at Gerstein; other copies at UTM, UTSC) or buy on Amazon.com (USA, incl. a Kindle ed.) or Amazon.ca (Canada, no Kindle)

Question: why does the Kindle e-book of this title list at Amazon.com for more than even the hardback edition, let alone the paperback? Surely electronic delivery has way better margins than warehousing, stocking and displaying or shipping the dead trees format? Not the first case I've seen of this disparity.

Anyway, UofT's geography department offers a course on biogeography, GGR305. This is why Song of the Dodo is on course reserve at Gerstein.

It turns out our library hosts a website of topic-specific "library guides" saying what the library offers that you'll need for a specific course. Here the  library guide for GGR305 and their Recommended resources for GGR305

Currently I have checked out a really neat book on this theme (making slow progress, lots of competing titles and other tasks):
Newton, Ian, 2003. The speciation and biogeography of birds (Gerstein Library, QL677.3 .N5 2003) -- find on Amazon.ca