Isolated Wonder describes the Robinson Crusoe Islands, a national park of Chile, located more than 400 miles west of the South American continent. The classical novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719) was based on true adventures of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who lived isolated in these islands from 1704 to 1709. Here exist unique flowering plants and ferns that stimulate scientific questions: How and when did these plants arrive to the archipelago? What processes of evolution occurred after they colonized? Botanists on 12 expenditions over 40 years from the Ohio State University, University of Concepción (Chile), University of Vienna (Austria), and other institutions, have revealed secrets of this unique plant world through numerous scientific publications. This book explains clearly and honestly the challenges of doing fieldwork in these islands, the excitements, the disappointments, and how research can dramatically impact personal lives, and vice versa. If you want to know what happens on botanical expenditions to an isolated region of the world, this book provides informative and entertaining insights.