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JEf MOLE PEACE BY WILLIAM BEEBE Curator of Birds, New Torlc Zoological Park, and Director of Tropical Research Station LLUSTRATBB FROM PHOTOGRAPHS NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COIwuf AIM 1918 tT, 1918, BY HKNRY HOLT AND COMPANY TO COLONEL JMTD MRS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT I OFFER THIS VOLUME WITH JDKEFEST FRIENDSHIP NOTE With three exceptions these chapters have appeared in the pages of The Atlantic Monthly, and I publish them through the kindness of the Editor, Ellery Sedgwick. Hoatzins at Home is adapted from a title in my topical Wild Life, Volume I, published by the New York Zoological Society, which deals with the more technical results of study at the Research Station. The illustrations are from my own photographs, except the frontispiece and those facing pages 162, 186, and 268, which were taken by Paul G. Howes. All the chapters dealing with the jungle relate to Bartica District, British Guiana, except X, which refers to Par at the mouth df the Amazon. CONTENTS OHAPTEB PAGE I Jungle Peace 3 II Sea-wrack 5 III Islands 33 IV The Pomeroon Trail 66 V A Hunt for Hoatzins 92 VI Hoatzins at Home 123 VII A Wilderness Laboratory .... 140 VIII The Convict Trail 177 IX With Army Ants Somewhere in the Jungle 211 X A Yard of Jungle 239 XI Jungle Night ........ 263 Index 295 ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE The Peace of the Jungle .... Frontispiece Where the Sargasso Floats ...... 16 Mont Pelee 28 Sunset in the West Indies 46 A Guiana Shore 70 A Tropical Eoadside 86 A Hoatzin Swamp 118 Nestling Hoatzin Climbing with Thumb and Forefinger 134 The Laboratory in the Jungle 146 A Corner of Kalacoon Laboratory .... 162 The Edge of the Jungle, . 186 Jungle near the Convict Trail 202 Pit Number Five 222 Canello do Matto theTree of the Birds . . 242 The Jungle 268 A Watcher in the Jungle,280
| ISBN-13 | 9781406726497 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1406726494 |
| Weight | 0.99 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 5.51 x 0.75 x 8.50 In |
| List Price | $30.45 |
| Format | - |
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| Language | English |
| Pages | 352 pages |
| Publisher | Browne Pr |
| Published On | 2007-03-01 |
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