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Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

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Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon

James Emerson, Sir Tennent

618 pages~12 hr 19 min read143 chapters$4.99
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The elephant gets a full monograph, but so do the mammals, birds, reptiles, fishes, and insects of the whole island. Sir James Emerson Tennent fills these pages with anecdote and observation from tropical Ceylon, engraved from original drawings. A rich Victorian natural history of Sri Lanka's wild creatures. Meet an island teeming with life.

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143 chapters

  1. 1SKETCHES
  2. 2NATURAL HISTORY OF CEYLON
  3. 3NARRATIVES AND ANECDOTES
  4. 4MAMMALIA, BIRDS, REPTILES, FISHES, INSECTS, c.
  5. 5INCLUDING A MONOGRAPH OF
  6. 6THE ELEPHANT
  7. 7WITH ENGRAVINGS FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY
  8. 8SIR J. EMERSON TENNENT, K.C.S. LL.D. c.
  9. 9INTRODUCTION.
  10. 10CONTENTS.
  11. 11CHAPTER I.
  12. 12MAMMALIA.
  13. 13CHAP. II
  14. 14THE ELEPHANT
  15. 15CHAP. III.
  16. 16THE ELEPHANT
  17. 17CHAP. IV.
  18. 18THE ELEPHANT

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