Creatures from another time, volcanic mountains five million years old, Indian tribes surviving from the pre-Inca period, jungles and rainforests: Ecuador has all this and more. Only in its Galapagos Islands did Charles Darwin discover such a variety of extraordinary fauna that on his return to England he wrote his groundbreaking On the Origin of Species. With a philosophical yet humourous approach, Neville Shulman provides an in-depth background to Ecuador and its diverse peoples and tells intriguing stories of spectacular creatures and exotic flora, many not found anywhere else in the world.

来自另一个时代的生物，有500万年历史的火山，从印加时期前幸存的印第安部落，丛林和雨林。厄瓜多尔拥有这一切，甚至更多。只有在加拉帕戈斯群岛，查尔斯-达尔文才发现了如此多的特殊动物，以至于他回到英国后，写下了开创性的《物种起源》。内维尔-舒尔曼以一种富有哲理而又幽默的方式，深入介绍了厄瓜多尔及其不同民族的背景，并讲述了壮观的生物和奇异的植物的耐人寻味的故事，其中许多是世界上其他地方所没有的。