Bates, Henry Walter. The Naturalist on the River Amazons. 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. With a memoir of the author by Edward Clodd. 1st. Ed. Rep. Pub. John Murray. 1892
pp.lxxxix, 395 with b/w. frontis. portrait, plates and illus. to text, maps (one being fold-out). 8vo. Hardback. Bookplate and insc. With numerous, informed notes to contents, o/w. contents fine. Internal hinges strengthened with black tape. Original cloth with gilt title and decoration to front, in good to vg. conditon with tape repair to head of spine.
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 problems of the origin of species. Originally published in 1863, this book catalogues a wondrous range of natural life in vivid description and detail.
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