| Edge of the Jungle Contributor(s): Beebe, William (Author), Finch, Robert (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 081541160X ISBN-13: 9780815411604 Publisher: Cooper Square Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2001 Annotation: This collection of 12 essays takes the reader into the heart of the jungle. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: 508.881 |
| LCCN: 2001042162 |
| Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5.5" W x 8.46" (0.86 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Naturalist and world explorer William Beebe served as the director of the New York Zoological Society's Tropical Research Station in British Guiana (present day Guyana) in the years following World War I, during which time he kept extensive records of the wildlife in the Amazon rain forest. Edge of the Jungle collects twelve amusing and meditative essays by Beebe on the destructive and comical activities of army ants and their leaf-cutting vegetarian cousins, the flight of enormous bats, tarantulas and the hawks that hunt them, and many other fascinating forms of tropical life. |