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Penguin Books
In the Heart of the Amazon Forest
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Penguin Books
Oprawa: Kartonowa
Opis
One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvelous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles great hoards of malevolent reptiles and insects in his quest for ever more obscure specimens on ever more narrow and creeper-choked tributaries. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilizations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, and multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Szczegóły
Rok wydania
2007
Oprawa
Kartonowa
Ilość stron
108
Format
11.0x18.0cm
Języki
angielski
ISBN
9780141025391
Rodzaj
Książka
EAN
9780141025391
Data premiery
2007-03-01
Kraj produkcji
GB
Producent
Penguin Books Limited
Podmiot odpowiedzialny
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
Nassau Street 32 Morrison Chambers
Dublin
IE
www.penguin.co.uk
Dublin
IE
www.penguin.co.uk
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