Edge of the Jungle - Softcover

Beebe, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081541160X ISBN 13: 9780815411604

Verlag: Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S., 2001

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Beebe William

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Mr. Beebe is a scientist, but he was certainly cut out for an epic poet. Where else is there such another combination of science and poetry, of observation and fancy, of fact and reveling, rioting, bejungled imagination? * Atlantic's Bookshelf * [Beebe's] writing is lucid; he exhibits an impeccable taste in verbal imagery; and he can, when he chooses, carry off a lyric flight without faltering or appearance of affectation. Apart from all other qualities, Edge of the Jungle is notable for its purely literary excellence. * The Nation *

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Naturalist and world explorer William Beebe served as the director of the New York Zoological Society's Tropical Research Station in British Guiana (present day Guyana) in the years following World War I, during which time he kept extensive records of the wildlife in the Amazon rain forest. Edge of the Jungle collects twelve amusing and meditative essays by Beebe on the destructive and comical activities of army ants and their leaf-cutting vegetarian cousins, the flight of enormous bats, tarantulas and the hawks that hunt them, and many other fascinating forms of tropical life.

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• Verlag: Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 081541160X
• ISBN 13: 9780815411604
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320