The Naturalist on the River Amazons, a Record of Adventures, Habits of Animals, Sketches of Brazilian and Indian Life, and Aspects of Nature under the Equator, during Eleven Years of Travel
- Publisher : John Murray
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : frontis (portrait of Bates), double-page col plates, b/w illus, folding map
Description:
Reprint of the unabridged edition. With a memoir of the author by E. Clodd. Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) was an English entomologist and explorer, who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals (Batesian mimicry). Best known for his expedition to the Amazon with Alfred Russell Wallace in 1848. Bates returned to England in 1859 having sent back over 14,000 species (mostly insects), of which 8,000 were new to science. This is his account of his eleven years travelling and collecting in Brazil, widely regarded as among the finest narratives of natural history travels, and still highly readable today.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, gt, minor rubbing to extremities, spine faded; foxing to edges; some foxing to prelims and last few pages, and occasional light spotting elsewhere in text. Previous owner's small book-plate. Vg.