The Naturalist in Nicaragua
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Verlag:Cosimo Classics
Fr. 41.90
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.08.2005
Verlag
Cosimo ClassicsSeitenzahl
448
Maße (L/B/H)
20.3/12.7/2.7 cm
Gewicht
535 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-59605-217-8
Sometimes.we would fall in with a troop of the white-faced cebus monkey, rapidly running away, throwing themselves from tree to tree. This monkey feeds also partly on fruit, but is incessantly on the look-out for insects, examining the crevices in trees and withered leaves, seizing the largest beetles and munching them up with great relish. -from Chapter VIII This masterpiece of scientific reportage and travel storytelling, first published in 1874, is a captivating narrative of the journeys of mining engineer Thomas Belt through the tropical rivers, valleys, forests, and lakes of Nicaragua. Replete with vivid descriptions of the animals and plants he encountered and full of ruminations on the geology of the region that were dismissed as fanciful at the time but have since been vindicated as true, this is "the best of all natural history journals which have ever been published," according to no less an authority than Charles Darwin. English engineer THOMAS BELT (1832-1878) traveled the world working mines from Australia to Colorado and producing numerous papers on topics ranging from geology to paleontology. The Naturalist in Nicaragua is considered his greatest work.
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