Brehms Life Of Animals A Complete Natural History For Popular Home Instruction And For The Use Of Schools

Author : Alfred Edmund Brehm
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330287408
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Brehm's Life of Animals, Vol. 1 written by Alfred Edmund Brehm and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Brehm's Life of Animals, Vol. 1: A Complete Natural History for Popular Home Instruction and for the Use of Schools Brehm's immortal book, "Life of Animals," is one of the most fascinating works ever written upon natural history. The author devoted his life to a study of animate nature, seeking out the creatures in their wild state and making most intimate acquaintance their habits, traits and characteristics. Many years were spent by him in the great forests, where he seemed to court danger in order that he might arrive at knowledge of the truth. The results of his studies and observations are shown in this masterly production, which, while detailing all the facts essential to scientific knowledge, clothes his narrative in descriptive details that hold the attention of old and young as strongly as the most thrilling romances. The new and revised edition of this work, carefully corrected and brought down by the scholarly Dr. William Haacke and Professor Pechuel-Loesche, the latter no less distinguished as an explorer than as a naturalist, has passed under the hands of Richard Schmidtlein, the celebrated German naturalist and author, who has preserved in it all the rich and splendid material of the original, but has omitted details and descriptions of a strictly scientific nature, the object being to furnish a book for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Professor Schmidtlein, in his scholarly and entertaining revision, made such changes as the progress of modern science demanded and perfected his work in a manner to call forth the highest praise from critics everywhere. The present edition has been translated from the German by linguists of distinction who have in the happiest manner transferred to the English tongue the rich, exuberant and fascinating style of the original; while competent scholars have carefully revised the translation, making only such changes as were calculated to bring it closer to the mind of the English reader. These changes are either inclosed in brackets, or are set in smaller type than the body of the work. The short sketches introduced under the pictures, independent of the text, are also the work of the American editors. This edition is, therefore, practically a complete work brought down to date, containing substantially all the matter to be found in Brehm's "Life of Animals," adapted to meet and reach the popular taste, and rendered into English in such manner as to make it clear and intelligible to every one, the child as well as the adult, only those animals being omitted which are little known and of interest to none but specialists. The book is designed to meet in the highest degree a great popular need, technical terms and long scientific descriptions being avoided, whenever possible, and it is invaluable as a work of reference and of study. It not only contains narratives of Brehm's exciting personal experiences and observations in forest and field, but also those of all other leading naturalists and explorers of the world, whose intimate touch with animate nature inspired them to speak in words that glow with interest and that thrill the reader. A most attractive feature of the present work is the superb illustrations, which include, with few exceptions, all that are contained in Brehm's complete work, and also numerous additions designed and executed at great expense and including the best efforts of the greatest artists in delineation of animal life. The work of these distinguished artists, supplemented with faithful mechanical reproductions, has resulted in the presentation of the various animals precisely as they appear in a state of nature, the figures being of a size to enable the student to obtain a most accurate knowledge of each creature, while parents and teachers can be assured that nothing is exaggerated, but that every detail is given with absolute fidelity.