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Naturalist on the River Amazon by Henry Walter Bates

ISBN: 9781906780098 PUBLISHER: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 409 PUBLICATION DATE: 2009 DIMENSIONS: 21.34 x 13.97 x 2.54 centimetres

DESCRIPTION: Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the authors included are as diverse as Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ernest Shackleton and Alfred Russel Wallace. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface, and has been printed to a high-quality production specification, to create a series that every lover of fine travel literature will want to collect and keep Henry Walter Bates and his co-naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace embarked together in 1848 on an expedition to the forests of the Amazon in search of plants and animals that would help solve the problem of the origin of species. Wallace returned to England in 1852, but tragically lost his entire collection in a shipwreck, while Bates stayed on for seven more years, accumulating more than 14,000 specimens, of which a staggering 8,000 were previously unknown to science. "The Naturalist on the River Amazons" was published in 1863 and catalogues a wondrous range of natural life in vivid description and detail.

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