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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Witherby in 1919 in 364 pages; Subjects: Natural history; Guyana; History / General; Nature / General; Travel / General; Travel / Essays & Travelogues; ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Owls; Juvenile Nonfiction / Animals / Birds; Juvenile Fiction / Animals / Birds; Nature / Birds ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free.This is an OCR edition with typos.Excerpt from book:IllTHE HOME TOWN OF THE ARMY ANTS From uniform to civilian clothes is a change transcending mere alteration of stuffs and buttons. It is scarcely less sweeping than the shift from civilian clothes to bathing-suit, which so often compels us to concentrate on remembered mental attributes, to avoid demanding a renewed introduction to estranged personality. In the home life of the average soldier, the relaxation from sustained tension and conscious routine results in a gentleness and quietness of mood for which warrior nations are especially remembered.Army ants have no insignia to lay aside, and their swords are too firmly hafted in their own beings to be hung up as post-bellum mural decorations, or—as is done only in poster-land—metamorphosed into pruning-hooks and plowshares.I sat at my laboratory table at Kartabo, and looked down river to the pink roof of Kalacoon, and my mind went back to the shambles of PitNumber Five.1 I was wondering whether I should ever see the army ants in any guise other than that of scouting, battling searchers for living prey, when a voice of the jungle seemed to hear my unexpressed wish. The sharp, high notes of white-fronted antbirds—those white- crested watchers of the ants—came to my ears, and I left my table and followed up the sound. Physically, I merely walked around the bungalow and approached the edge of the jungle at a point where we had erected a small outhouse a day or two before. But this two hundred feet might just as well have been a single step through quicksilver, hand in hand with Alice, for it took me from a world of hyoids and syrinxes, of vials and lenses and clean-smelling xylol, to the home of the army ants.The antbirds were chirping and hopping about on the very edge of the jungle, but I did not have to go that... ... Read more

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Okay, I must admit that I'm the type of person who is fascinated by nature documentaries.I picked up this book on a whim, and loved every page - it's like a PBS special on paper!I found that it includes an impressive cross-section of naturalists throughout history, all over the world.Sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking, but always profound and sincere, this book was simply a delight.I even learned a bit.

My favorite section was the one on the mating habits of scorpions - the gentleman who documented the scenes was touching in his simple joy of nature and observation.I felt affection for many of these dedicated writers who took such pleasure in watching nature without feeling the need to destroy and display it.It's pretty light reading - and perhaps could be a good "bathroom book" but is inspiring in a quiet way.Recommended! ... Read more

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Chapters: Margaret Mead, William Beebe, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Hobbs, Steven Heller, Dorothy Canning Miller, Philippe de Montebello, Frank O'hara, William Curry Holden, Johanna Drucker, Brian Sherwin, Martin Eidelberg, Mark Tribe, Patrick Lennox Tierney, Maurice Berger, Clark Wissler, Edward Steichen, Jeffrey A. Wilson, James Crump, Raúl Zamudio, Margaret Formby, Lowery Stokes Sims, Arthur Everett Austin, Jr., Paul J. Sachs, Sara Yorke Stevenson, Robert C. Morgan, Christiane Robbins, Richard Milazzo, Thyrza Nichols Goodeve, Ingrid Schaffner, Anne Wilkes Tucker, Thomas Hoving, Alfred H. Barr, Jr., Jacques Gauthier, John Szarkowski, Norman D. Newell, Qi Peng, Walter Pach, Graham Howe, Jeff Jahn, Sam Wagstaff, Richard Martin, Robert Cushman, Harold Gould Henderson, Nels C. Nelson, Robert Goldwater, Laurence Sickman, Colin Westerbeck, Okwui Enwezor, Erastus Brainerd, Shaul Shimon Deutsch, Jonathan Leo Fairbanks, John D. Anderson, Bill Blackbeard, Lucy R. Lippard, Edward S. Morse, Doron Swade, Betty Sue Flowers, Roxanna Brown, Marjorie Schwarzer, Lee Klein, Oscar White Muscarella, Mildred Constantine, Clayton Colvin, Stephen Little, Grace Morley, Otto Bettmann, Hal Gould, Mimi Gardner Gates, Andrew Berardini, Edward T. Maloney, William Bascom, Leah Dickerman, Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule Iii, Thelma Golden, Christiane Paul, Marion True, A. Hyatt Mayor, Marilyn Houlberg, Robert Beverly Hale, Lawrence Rinder, Robert Lowie, Florence S. Jacobsen, Lynne Cooke, Jeanine Basinger, Richard Van Gelder, James Rorimer, Burim Myftiu, Marilyn C. Solvay, Arlene Raven, Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell, Rene D'harnoncourt, Seth Siegelaub, William Atwater, Tarleton Hoffman Bean, Paola Antonelli, Dan Cameron, Stanley Mullen, Edmund Barry Gaither, Roger Mandle, Robert Sharer, Adam Lerner, Renny Pritikin, Bruce Guenther, Howard I. Chapelle, Sylvester Rosa Koehler, Charles Cleveland Nutting, Geoffrey Hendricks, Herbert Eustis Winlock, Klaus Ottmann, Pet...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=364788 ... Read more

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Title: The Remarkable Life of William Beebe: Explorer and Naturalist.(Book Review)
Author: William E., Jr. Davis
Publication: Wilson Bulletin (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 1, 2005
Publisher: Wilson Ornithological Society
Volume: 117Issue: 4Page: 421(2)

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Chapters: E. O. Wilson, William Beebe, Howard T. Odum, Ed Ricketts, Lester R. Brown, Paul R. Ehrlich, D. Jeffrey Wright, Mike Hudak, John B. Calhoun, William J. Mitsch, Eric Pianka, Dan James Pantone, Howard P. Boyd, Daniel Janzen, Henry Gleason, Garrett Hardin, Eugene Odum, Joan Roughgarden, Victor Ernest Shelford, Barry Commoner, Douglas J. Futuyma, Stephen Alfred Forbes, Warder Clyde Allee, Charles a S Hall, Dolores Lachapelle, Peter Farb, Robert Ulanowicz, Cornelius Herman Muller, Edward Smith Deevey, Jr., Robert Whittaker, Frederic Clements, Ralph Buchsbaum, G. David Tilman, Giacomo Bernardi, A. Starker Leopold, Ignacio Chapela, Jane Lubchenco, Raymond Lindeman, Martin W. Johnson, Don G. Despain, John Ernest Weaver, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, James Brown, Lawrence B. Slobodkin, Henry Chandler Cowles, Simon A. Levin, Ruth Patrick, Henry Paul Hansen, Peter and Rosemary Grant, Daniel Simberloff, Stephen P. Hubbell, John Thomas Curtis, Nalini Nadkarni, Daniel A. Livingstone, J. Michael Fay, Robert Ricklefs, Christopher B. Anderson, Robert Macarthur, Thomas S. Ray, Anne H. Ehrlich, Peter Warshall, Donald W. Tinkle, James Kirchner, Eric Charnov, Gene Likens, Dwight Billings, Harold A. Mooney, Paul Colinvaux, Bertram Whittier Wells, Merlin Tuttle, Edmund Jaeger, David E. Davis, Samuel J. Mcnaughton, Arthur Shapiro, William Vogt, Thomas W. Schoener, John Wiens. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 297. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Howard Thomas Odum (1924, Chapel Hill, North Carolina2002 Gainesville, Florida) (also known as Tom or just H.T.) was an American ecologist. He is known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology, and for his provocative proposals for additional laws of thermodynamics, informed by his work on general systems theory. Odum was the third child of the American soci...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1019627 ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from World of Earth Science, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 731 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.A comprehensive guide to the concepts, theories, discoveries, pioneers, and issues relating to topics in earth science. Its encyclopedic approach offers entries that are written in easy to understand language. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of (Charles) William Beebe, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 908 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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