An entertaining addition to the sparse literature showing how scientists
really work is I’ve Been Gone Far Too Long, edited by Monique Borgerhoff Mulder
and Wendy Logsdon (RDR Books, $14.95, ISBN 1 57143 054 7). Cambridge
animal behaviour researcher James Serpell, waking to find a huge Indonesian
cockroach eating his big toe, is one of 21 biologists and anthropologists who
describe their field trip experiences.
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