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Shelford, Robert W. C.

A Naturalist in Borneo

1917

195,52 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1917
Lugar de impresión
New York. E. P. Dutton & Company
Autor
Shelford, Robert W. C.
Edición
First American edition.
Materia
Travel - Pacific & Australia Naturalists Travels
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [22 x 14.5 cm]; xxvii, [i], 331 pp, frontis (portrait) with tissue guard, 32 plates mostly from photos, tables, index. original blue cloth, gilt title lettering on spine and cover, lightly rubbed at edges, small endpaper signature, near fine, clean and unmarked. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Shelford, who was curator of the Sarawak Museum and with Oxford University Museum, was an entomologist by training, made expeditions into the interior of Borneo to study the head-hunting tribes and the natural history. The book contains detailed chapters on natural history, birds, insects, mimicry in nature, animal life of the shores, natives of Borneo, reptiles, etc. Very nicely illustrated, including of a head hunting expedition, buildings in Sarawack, Kuching. The work was edited from the manuscript & notes by Edward Poulton after Sheldon's early death due to a tropical disease.