Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Download The Naturalist On The River Amazons A Record Of Adventures Habits Of Animals Sketches Of Brazilian And Indian Life And Aspects Of Nature Under The Equator During Eleven Years Of Travel full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online The Naturalist On The River Amazons A Record Of Adventures Habits Of Animals Sketches Of Brazilian And Indian Life And Aspects Of Nature Under The Equator During Eleven Years Of Travel ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Author : Henry Walter Bates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Naturalist on the River Amazons written by Henry Walter Bates and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Walter Bates
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2382741279
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (827 download)
Download or read book The Naturalist on the River Amazons written by Henry Walter Bates and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naturalist on the River Amazons, subtitled A Record of the Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel, is an 1863 book by the British naturalist Henry Walter Bates about his expedition to the Amazon basin. Bates and his friend Alfred Russel Wallace set out to obtain new species and new evidence for evolution by natural selection, as well as exotic specimens to sell. He explored thousands of miles of the Amazon and its tributaries, and collected over 14,000 species, of which 8,000 were new to science. His observations of the coloration of butterflies led him to discover Batesian mimicry. The book contains an evenly distributed mixture of natural history, travel, and observation of human societies, including the towns with their Catholic processions. Only the most remarkable discoveries of animals and plants are described, and theories such as evolution and mimicry are barely mentioned. Bates remarks that finding a new species is only the start; he also describes animal behaviour, sometimes in detail, as for the army ants. He constantly relates the wildlife to the people, explaining how the people hunt, what they eat and what they use as medicines. The book is illustrated with drawings by leading artists including E. W. Robinson, Josiah Wood Whymper, Joseph Wolf and Johann Baptist Zwecker. On Bates's return to England, he was encouraged by Charles Darwin to write up his eleven-year stay in the Amazon as a book. The result was widely admired, not least by Darwin; other reviewers sometimes disagreed with the book's support for evolution, but generally enjoyed his account of the journey, scenery, people, and natural history. The book has been reprinted many times, mostly in Bates's own effective abridgement for the second edition, which omitted the more technical descriptions. the best book of Natural History Travels ever published in England — Charles Darwin
Author : Gillian Beer
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191037257
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Open Fields written by Gillian Beer and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1999-03-11 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science always raises more questions than it can contain. These acclaimed and challenging essays explore how ideas are transformed as they come under the stress of unforeseen readers. Using a wealth of material from diverse nineteenth- and twentieth-century writing, Gillian Beer tracks encounters between science, literature, and other forms of emotional experience. Her analysis discloses issues of chance, gender, nation, and desire. A substantial group of essays centres on Darwin and the incentives of his thinking from language theory to his encounters with Fuegians. Other essays include Hardy, Helmholtz, Hopkins, Clerk Maxwell, and Woolf. The collection throws a different light on Victorian experience and the rise of modernism, and engages with current controversies about the place of science in culture.
Author : James Samuelson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Popular Science Review written by James Samuelson and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Walter Bates
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Naturalist on the River Amazons written by Henry Walter Bates and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anthony Crawforth
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 0956071619
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Butterfly Hunter written by Anthony Crawforth and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the epic, true and long overdue story of the young explorer who put forward the first ever case for the creation of a new species, providing what Charles Darwin called the "beautiful proof" for Natural Selection. The major discovery of Batesian Mimicry was developed from Bates's fascinating 11-year journey and study of butterflies in the Amazon rainforest. He noted how certain animals adopt the look of others to deceive predators and gain an advantage to survive. Little known to the public, Bates made other crucial contributions to biology: he collected over 14,000 specimens, of which over 8,000 were new to science at the time. He went on to become the administrator for the Royal Geographical Society and transformed it into an institution which combined exploration with academic research, and was responsible for placing geography on the school curriculum. This important book reassesses Bates's life and finally places both the man and his work in their rightful place alongside the other greats.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Humboldt Library of Popular Science Literature ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederic Boase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Modern English Biography written by Frederic Boase and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christoph Irmscher
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978805888
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (788 download)
Download or read book The Poetics of Natural History written by Christoph Irmscher and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-08 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2000 American Studies Network Prize and the Literature and Language Award from the Association of American Publishers, Inc. Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram’s botanical garden in Philadelphia and the artful display of animals in Charles Willson Peale’s museum to P. T. Barnum’s American Museum, infamously characterized by Henry James as “halls of humbug.” Yet physical collections were only one of the myriad ways that these naturalists captured, catalogued, and commemorated America’s rich biodiversity. They also turned to writing and art, from John Edward Holbrook’s forays into the fascinating world of herpetology to John James Audubon’s masterful portraits of American birds. In this groundbreaking, now classic book, Christoph Irmscher argues that early American natural historians developed a distinctly poetic sensibility that allowed them to imagine themselves as part of, and not apart from, their environment. He also demonstrates what happens to such inclusiveness in the hands of Harvard scientist-turned Amazonian explorer Louis Agassiz, whose racist pseudoscience appalled his student William James. This expanded, full-color edition of The Poetics of Natural History features a preface and art from award-winning artist Rosamond Purcell and invites the reader to be fully immersed in an era when the boundaries between literature, art, and science became fluid.
Author : Frederic Boase
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Modern English Biography: (Supplement v.1-3) written by Frederic Boase and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles C. Marble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Birds & Nature Magazine written by Charles C. Marble and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Alfred Edward Pease
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (276 download)
Download or read book Edmund Loder, Naturalist, Horticulturist, Traveller and Sportsman written by Sir Alfred Edward Pease and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Raffles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400865271
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book In Amazonia written by Hugh Raffles and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Amazon is not what it seems. As Hugh Raffles shows us in this captivating and innovative book, the world's last great wilderness has been transformed again and again by human activity. In Amazonia brings to life an Amazon whose allure and reality lie as much, or more, in what people have made of it as in what nature has wrought. It casts new light on centuries of encounter while describing the dramatic remaking of a sweeping landscape by residents of one small community in the Brazilian Amazon. Combining richly textured ethnographic research and lively historical analysis, Raffles weaves a fascinating story that changes our understanding of this region and challenges us to rethink what we mean by "nature." Raffles draws from a wide range of material to demonstrate--in contrast to the tendency to downplay human agency in the Amazon--that the region is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. He moves between a detailed narrative that analyzes the production of scientific knowledge about Amazonia over the centuries and an absorbing account of the extraordinary transformations to the fluvial landscape carried out over the past forty years by the inhabitants of Igarapé Guariba, four hours downstream from the nearest city. Engagingly written, theoretically inventive, and vividly illustrated, the book introduces a diverse range of characters--from sixteenth-century explorers and their native rivals to nineteenth-century naturalists and contemporary ecologists, logging company executives, and river-traders. A natural history of a different kind, In Amazonia shows how humans, animals, rivers, and forests all participate in the making of a region that remains today at the center of debates in environmental politics.
Author : Fa-ti FAN
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674036689
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book British Naturalists in Qing China written by Fa-ti FAN and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as Westerners in China, including missionaries, merchants, consular officers, and visiting plant hunters, eagerly investigated the flora and fauna of China. Yet despite the importance and extent of this scientific activity, it has been entirely neglected by historians of science. This book is the first comprehensive study on this topic. In a series of vivid chapters, Fa-ti Fan examines the research of British naturalists in China in relation to the history of natural history, of empire, and of Sino-Western relations. The author gives a panoramic view of how the British naturalists and the Chinese explored, studied, and represented China's natural world in the social and cultural environment of Qing China. Using the example of British naturalists in China, the author argues for reinterpreting the history of natural history, by including neglected historical actors, intellectual traditions, and cultural practices. His approach moves beyond viewing the history of science and empire within European history and considers the exchange of ideas, aesthetic tastes, material culture, and plants and animals in local and global contexts. This compelling book provides an innovative framework for understanding the formation of scientific practice and knowledge in cultural encounters. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction I. The Port 1. Natural History in a Chinese Entrepà ́t 2. Art, Commerce, and Natural History II. The Land 3. Science and Informal Empire 4. Sinology and Natural History 5. Travel and Fieldwork in the Interior Epilogue Appendix: Selected Biographical Notes Abbreviations Notes Index Fa-ti Fan's study of the encounter between the British culture of the naturalist and the Chinese culture of the Qing is both a delight and a revelation. The topic has scarcely been addressed by historians of science, and this work fills important gaps in our knowledge of British scientific practice in a noncolonial context and of Chinese reactions to Western science in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In addition to the culture of Victorian naturalists and Sinology, Fan shows an admirable grasp of visual representation in science, Chinese taxonomic schemes, Chinese export art, British imperial scholarship, and journeys of exploration. His treatment of the China trade and descriptions of Chinese markets and nurseries are especially welcome. I learned a great deal, and I strongly recommend this book. --Philip Rehbock, author of Philosophical Naturalists: Themes in Early Nineteenth-Century British Biology By focusing on the experiences of British naturalists in China during a time when it was gradually being opened up to foreign influences, Fan makes at least two important contributions to history of science: He gives us an authoritative study of British naturalists in China (as far as I know the only one of its kind), and he forces us to rethink some of our categories for doing history of science, including how we conceive of the relationship between science and imperialism, and between Western naturalist and native. Fan's scholarship is meticulous, with careful attention to detail, and his prose is clear, controlled, and succinct. --Bernard Lightman, editor of Victorian Science in Context
Author : Susanna B. Hecht
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226322815
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Scramble for the Amazon and the "Lost Paradise" of Euclides da Cunha written by Susanna B. Hecht and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon—a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, Euclides da Cunha, engineer, journalist, geographer, political theorist, and one of Brazil’s most celebrated writers, led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river, among the world’s most valuable, dangerous, and little-known landscapes. The Scramble for the Amazon tells the story of da Cunha’s terrifying journey, the unfinished novel born from it, and the global strife that formed the backdrop for both. Haunted by his broken marriage, da Cunha trekked through a beautiful region thrown into chaos by guerrilla warfare, starving migrants, and native slavery. All the while, he worked on his masterpiece, a nationalist synthesis of geography, philosophy, biology, and journalism he named the Lost Paradise. Da Cunha intended his epic to unveil the Amazon’s explorers, spies, natives, and brutal geopolitics, but, as Susanna B. Hecht recounts, he never completed it—his wife’s lover shot him dead upon his return. At once the biography of an extraordinary writer, a masterly chronicle of the social, political, and environmental history of the Amazon, and a superb translation of the remaining pieces of da Cunha’s project, The Scramble for the Amazon is a work of thrilling intellectual ambition.
Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book The Annals and Magazine of Natural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
