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Hingston, Major R. W. G.

A Naturalist in the Guiana Forest

1932

84,60 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canadá)

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Año de publicación
1932
Lugar de impresión
New York. Longmans, Green & Co
Autor
Hingston, Major R. W. G.
Edición
First American Edition.
Materia
Travel - South America Naturalists Travels Entomology Scientific, Expedition
Idiomas
Inlgés
Primera edición

Descripción

8vo [22.5 x 14 cm]; xiii, [ii], 384 pp, 16 plates including frontis from photos, map, 150 illustrations from the author's drawings, appendix on new species of spiders. original cloth, gilt spine title lettering, spine faded but lettering clear, name of Arthur J. Spoor on endpaper, minor foxing on a few margins, front panel of dust jacket glued to front endpaper, tipped in description on endpaper, near fine, clean. A pic An important book on scientific exploration in these South American jungles by the distinguished naturalist and leader of the Oxford University Expedition to British Guiana. Based on long hours of watching in observation posts slung in the tree tops, enabled the author to observe a teeming and fantastic natural world. With much on insects, spiders and spider webs. Nicely illustrated including many sketches of spider webs by the author.