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Edge of the Jungle
Beebe, William; Finch, Robert
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Description for Edge of the Jungle
Paperback. Edge of the Jungle collects twelve amusing and heartfelt essays by naturalist 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. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1. BIC Classification: WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 390.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9780815411604
SKU
V9780815411604
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99-15
About Beebe, William; Finch, Robert
William Beebe (1877-1962) was an eminent naturalist and deep sea and jungle explorer. He authored several books. Robert Finch, co-editor of The Norton Book of Nature Writing, lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Reviews for Edge of the Jungle
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 ... Read more
Atlantic's Bookshelf
[Beebe's] writing is lucid; he exhibits an impeccable taste in verbal imagery; and he can, when he chooses, carry ... Read more