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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Tropical nature, and other essays
Alfred Russel Wallace
372 pages~7 hr 25 min read26 chapters$4.99
Why is the tropics so extravagantly alive? Alfred Russel Wallace explains the luxuriance of equatorial nature: its climate, its towering vegetation, its teeming forests, and the jewel-like hummingbirds that embody its excess. Masterful science essays from a founder of biogeography. Discover why life crowds thickest at the equator.
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26 chapters
- 1TROPICAL NATURE, AND OTHER ESSAYS.
- 2THE TROPICS.
- 3ENGLAND.
- 4PREFACE.
- 5CONTENTS.
- 6I. THE CLIMATE AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE EQUATORIAL ZONE.
- 7II. EQUATORIAL VEGETATION.
- 8III. ANIMAL LIFE IN THE TROPICAL FORESTS.
- 9IV. HUMMING-BIRDS: AS ILLUSTRATING THE LUXURIANCE OF TROPICAL NATURE.
- 10V. THE COLOURS OF ANIMALS AND SEXUAL SELECTION.
- 11VI. THE COLOURS OF PLANTS AND THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR-SENSE.
- 12ON THE ORIGIN OF THE COLOUR-SENSE.
- 13VII. BY-PATHS IN THE DOMAIN OF BIOLOGY:
- 14ON SOME RELATIONS OF LIVING THINGS TO THEIR ENVIRONMENT.
- 15RISE AND PROGRESS OF MODERN VIEWS AS TO THE ANTIQUITY AND ORIGIN OF MAN.
- 16VIII. THE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIMALS AS INDICATING GEOGRAPHICAL CHANGES.[63]
- 17The Palæarctic Region.
- 18The Ethiopian Region.
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