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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Notes of a naturalist in South America
John Ball
445 pages~8 hr 52 min read17 chapters$4.99
John Ball crossed South America with a botanist's eye, climbing from steaming lowlands to Andean heights and watching the temperature and the flora change with every thousand feet. His notes mix travel, science and a theory of mountain plant life. Fieldwork from a curious and cultivated traveler. Ascend the great cordillera in his company.
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17 chapters
- 1Transcriber’s Notes
- 2NOTES OF A NATURALIST IN SOUTH AMERICA
- 3PREFACE.
- 4CONTENTS.
- 5NOTES OF A NATURALIST IN SOUTH AMERICA.
- 6CHAPTER I.
- 7CHAPTER II.
- 8CHAPTER III.
- 9CHAPTER IV.
- 10CHAPTER V.
- 11CHAPTER VI.
- 12APPENDIX A. ON THE FALL OF TEMPERATURE IN ASCENDING TO HEIGHTS ABOVE THE SEA-LEVEL.
- 13APPENDIX B. REMARKS ON MR. CROLL’S THEORY OF SECULAR CHANGES OF THE EARTH’S CLIMATE.
- 14INDEX.
- 15NOTE ON THE MAP OF SOUTH AMERICA.
- 16FOOTNOTES
- 17Transcriber’s Notes
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