Henry Walter Bates : naturalist of the Amazons / by George Woodcock.
Henry Walter Bates : naturalist of the Amazons / by George Woodcock.
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London : Faber, 1969.
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1969.
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E918.11/WOO
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English
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269 p. : plates, illus., maps, ports. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Preface -- I The hosier's apprentice -- II Escape from England -- III Preparations in Pará -- IV Journey to the Tocantins -- V Caripí and Cametá -- VI To the upper Amazons -- VII The entomologist's eden -- VIII Santarem and the Tapajos -- IX Last journeys -- X In Darwin's shadow -- Acknowledgemen...
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Henry Walter Bates was one of the great self-taught naturalists of the Victorian age. Trained, as a hosier, with litte formal education, he became in boyhood a dedicated entomologist. His meeting in 1844 with the equally delf-taught young naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, was decisive in the lives of both men. Together they decided to embark on ca...
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Henry Walter Bates : naturalist of the Amazons / by George Woodcock.
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Great travellers.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 262-264.
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E918.11/WOO
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74VvR3BN6abM
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0571088007
9780571088003
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509.24
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991009084789702626
