
From North Pole to Equator, Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands
By Alfred Edmund BrehmLength21h 28m
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Excerpt: "Six years have passed since the grave at Renthendorf closed over the remains of my esteemed father, whose death—all too early—was as great a loss to Science as to those who loved and honoured him. It was strange that his eventful and adventurous life, in the course of which he visited and explored four quarters of the globe, should have ended at the little spot in green Thuringia where he was born. He had just reached his fifty-fifth year when his lips, so apt in speech, were silenced, and the pen which he held so masterfully dropped from his hand. He was full of great plans as to various works, and it is much to be regretted that the notes which he had collected towards the realization of these were too fragmentary for anyone but their author to utilize. But the manuscripts which he left contained many a treasure, and it seemed to me a duty, both to the author and to all friends of thoughtful observation, to make these available to the reading public."
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GenreTravel, Biography and Memoir
Length21 hrs 28 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 15, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1PREFACE
12LOVE AND COURTSHIP AMONG BIRDS.
2PREFATORY NOTE
13APES AND MONKEYS.
3CONTENTS.
14DESERT JOURNEYS.
4INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
15NUBIA AND THE NILE RAPIDS.[B]
5THE BIRD-BERGS OF LAPLAND.
16A JOURNEY IN SIBERIA.
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6THE TUNDRA AND ITS ANIMAL LIFE.
17THE HEATHEN OSTIAKS.
7THE ASIATIC STEPPES AND THEIR FAUNA.
18THE NOMAD HERDSMEN AND HERDS OF THE STEPPES.
8THE FORESTS AND SPORT OF SIBERIA.
19FAMILY AND SOCIAL LIFE AMONG THE KIRGHIZ.
9THE STEPPES OF INNER AFRICA.
20COLONISTS AND EXILES IN SIBERIA.
10THE PRIMEVAL FORESTS OF CENTRAL AFRICA.
21AN ORNITHOLOGIST ON THE DANUBE.
11THE MIGRATIONS OF MAMMALS.
22NOTES BY THE EDITOR.