From North Pole to Equator; Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands

1895

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Anno di pubblicazione

1895

Luogo di stampa

London, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin. Blackie & Sons

Autore

Brehm, Alfred Edmund, Introduction By J. Arthur Thomson

Edizione

First edition in English, translated from German first edition.

Soggetto

Travel - General Naturalists Travels

Lingue

Inglese

Prima edizione

Sì

Descrizione

large 8vo [25 x 18 cm]; xxxii, 592 pp, frontis (portrait of author with his signature in the plate), 83 illustrations from drawings, mostly full-page, bibliog, index. original pictorial gilt cloth, gilt vignette on spine, gilt lettering, on spine and cover, lightly rubbed at edges, spine slightly faded but lettering clear, name on half title page, interior is clean and fine in very good cover. A picture of this book is Interesting introductory essay by Thomson on naturalist-travellers of which Brehm, a well-known German naturalist, was one who travelled extensively, describing Lapland, the Siberian tundra and forests, steppes of inner Africa, the primeval forests of central Africa, animal migrations, bird courtship, apes and monkeys, travels across the Sahara, Nubia and Nile rapids, the Ostiaks, nomad herdsmen and their herds in the steppes, social life of the Kirghizz, Siberian exiles and colonists, bird watching and ornithology on the Danube, etc, observing wildlife as well as the people. Good illustrations. Wood 255.