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The Naturalist on the River Amazon
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

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  • Date Published: July 2009
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108001632

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  • 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 Pará, Tocantins, Cametá, Marajó, Caripí, 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.

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    • Edition: 3rd Edition
    • Date Published: July 2009
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108001632
    • length: 412 pages
    • dimensions: 216 x 140 x 23 mm
    • weight: 0.52kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Pará
    2. Pará
    3. Pará
    4. The Tocantins and Cameta
    5. Caripí and the Bay of Marajó
    6. The lower Amazons - Pará to Obydos
    7. The Lower Amazons - Obydos to Manaos, or the Barra of the Rio Negro
    8. Santarem
    9. Voyage up the Tapajos
    10. The upper Amazons - Voyage to Ega
    11. Excursions in the neighbourhood of Ega
    12. Animals of the neighbourhood of Ega
    13. Excursions beyond Ega.

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    Henry Walter Bates

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