The Naturalist on the River Amazon

by Bates, Henry Walter

• ISBN13: 9781108001632
• ISBN10: 1108001637
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-07-20
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
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Summary

First published in 1863, this is a first-hand account of Henry Walter Bates' eleven-year expedition to the river Amazon in 1848, during which he discovered some eight thousand species unknown to the natural sciences. Written in the first person, it records the astonishing range of natural life in the regions traversed by the Amazon and its tributaries. Describing his adventures south of the equator, Bates takes the reader through Parà, Tocantins, Cametà, Marajò, Caripì, Obydos, Manos, Santarem, Tapajos, and Ega, descriptively cataloguing the rich vegetation, aboriginal population, and wondrous birds, animals and insects of these regions. More than just a scientist's log, the work that took Bates three years to complete was considered by Darwin to be 'the best work of natural history travels ever published in England.' This third edition of the book (1873) also contains numerous illustrations by the noted zoologist Joseph Wolf.

Table of Contents

Pará

Pará

Pará

The Tocantins and Cameta

Caripí and the Bay of Marajó

The lower Amazons - Pará to Obydos

The Lower Amazons - Obydos to Manaos, or the Barra of the Rio Negro

Santarem

Voyage up the Tapajos

The upper Amazons - Voyage to Ega

Excursions in the neighbourhood of Ega

Animals of the neighbourhood of Ega

Excursions beyond Ega

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