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Nature, Gardens & Animals
The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1
Alfred Russel Wallace
624 pages~12 hr 26 min read16 chapters$4.99
Why do kangaroos live only in Australia and sloths only in the Americas? Alfred Russel Wallace, the father of biogeography, explains how the earth's changing surface scattered animals into distinct zoological regions. A monumental founding work on where creatures live and why. Map the animal kingdom across the whole face of the globe.
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Inside this book
16 chapters
- 1Preface.
- 2Contents of the First Volume
- 3Maps and Illustrations in Vol. I.
- 4I. Introductory
- 5II. The means of Dispersal and the Migrations of Animals
- 6III. Distribution as Affected by the Conditions and Changes of the Earth's Surface
- 7IV. On Zoological Regions
- 8V. Classification as Affecting the Study of Geographical Distribution
- 9VI. The Extinct Mammalia of the Old World
- 10VII. Extinct Mammalia of the New World
- 11VIII. Various Extinct Animals
- 12IX. The Order of Succession of the Regions
- 13X. The Palæarctic Region
- 14XI. The Ethiopian Region
- 15XII. The Oriental Region
- 16XIII. The Australian Region
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