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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Edge of the Jungle
William Beebe
221 pages~4 hr 24 min read21 chapters$4.99
Set up camp at Kartabo in the Guiana jungle and the wilderness comes to you. Beebe writes of a jungle clearing, the marching cities of the army ants, and the teeming life at the forest's edge, all in his vivid naturalist's prose. Wonder on every page. Pitch your tent where the jungle begins and watch it live.
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Inside this book
21 chapters
- 1EDGE OF THE JUNGLE
- 2Honorary Curator of Birds and Director of the Tropical Research Station of the New York Zoological Society.
- 3GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK
- 4GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC.
- 5NOTE
- 6CONTENTS
- 7EDGE OF THE JUNGLE
- 8I THE LURE OF KARTABO
- 9II A JUNGLE CLEARING
- 10III THE HOME TOWN OF THE ARMY ANTS
- 11IV A JUNGLE BEACH
- 12V A BIT OF USELESSNESS
- 13VI GUINEVERE THE MYSTERIOUS
- 14VII A JUNGLE LABOR-UNION
- 15VIII THE ATTAS AT HOME
- 16IX HAMMOCK NIGHTS
- 17X A TROPIC GARDEN
- 18XI THE BAY OF BUTTERFLIES
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