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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Jungle days
William Beebe
161 pages~3 hr 13 min read14 chapters$4.99
William Beebe pulls a chair up to his jungle table and lets the tropics come to him: falling leaves, a midnight beach, the mystery of the mangroves. These short pieces watch the rainforest with a scientist's eye and a poet's ear, finding drama in a sloth's slow climb. Elegant natural history from a master. Settle in where the jungle lives.
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Inside this book
14 chapters
- 1JUNGLE DAYS
- 2CONTENTS
- 3ILLUSTRATIONS
- 4I A CHAIN OF JUNGLE LIFE
- 5II MY JUNGLE TABLE
- 6III A MIDNIGHT BEACH COMBING
- 7IV FALLING LEAVES
- 8V THE JUNGLE SLUGGARD
- 9VI MANGROVE MYSTERY
- 10VII THE LIFE OF DEATH
- 11OLD-TIME PEOPLE
- 12Part I—Fact
- 13Part II—Theory
- 14THE BIRD OF THE WINE-COLORED EGG
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