Richard Spruce

Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes

Being Records of Travel on the Amazon and Its Tributaries, the Trombetas, Rio Negro, Uaupes, Casiquiari,
Herausgeber: Wallace, Alfred Russel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The 1908 two-volume narrative of unprecedented botanical exploration in South America, the fruits of which are still significant.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 792g
• ISBN-13: 9781108069212
• ISBN-10: 1108069215
• Artikelnr.: 40496811

Inhaltsangabe

15. From Barra do Rio Negro to Tarapoto, Peru
16. Residence at Tarapoto
17. Voyage in small canoes from Tarapoto to Canelos on the Bombonasa river
18. Through the forest on Canelos to Banos
19. Botanical excursions in the Andes of Ecuador
20. Ambato and the Cinchona forests of Alausí
21. The Cinchona forests of western Chimborazo
22. Spruce's last three years in South America
23. Letters and articles relating to his Amazonian travels
24. On ant-agency in plant-structure
25. On indigenous narcotics and stimulants, with their uses by the Indians
26. The women-warriors of the Amazon
27. The engraved rocks of the Rio Negro and Casiquiari
28. A hidden treasure of the Incas
Glossary of native names
Index.