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223 REMARKS ON MY CHARACTER AT TWENTY - ONE CHAPTER XVI 229 LONDON AND LEICESTER CHAPTER XVII 241 RESIDENCE AT NEATH CHAPTER XVIII THE JOURNEY TO THE AMAZON 264 . CHAPTER XIX 289 “ IN MEMORIAM " CHAPTER XX 302 IN LONDON , AND VOYAGE TO ...
223 REMARKS ON MY CHARACTER AT TWENTY - ONE CHAPTER XVI 229 LONDON AND LEICESTER CHAPTER XVII 241 RESIDENCE AT NEATH CHAPTER XVIII THE JOURNEY TO THE AMAZON 264 . CHAPTER XIX 289 “ IN MEMORIAM " CHAPTER XX 302 IN LONDON , AND VOYAGE TO ...
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When I went to the Amazon , he took a small dairy - farm at too high a rent , and not making this pay , in 1849 he emigrated to California at the height of the first rush for gold , joined several mining camps , and was moderately ...
When I went to the Amazon , he took a small dairy - farm at too high a rent , and not making this pay , in 1849 he emigrated to California at the height of the first rush for gold , joined several mining camps , and was moderately ...
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... and mysterious charm , which was extended even to our native species , and which , I believe , had its share in producing that longing for the tropics which a few years later was satisfied in the equatorial forests of the Amazon .
... and mysterious charm , which was extended even to our native species , and which , I believe , had its share in producing that longing for the tropics which a few years later was satisfied in the equatorial forests of the Amazon .
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... it seems very unlikely that I should have ever undertaken what at that time seemed rather a wild scheme , a journey to the almost unknown forests of the Amazon in order to observe nature and make a living by collecting .
... it seems very unlikely that I should have ever undertaken what at that time seemed rather a wild scheme , a journey to the almost unknown forests of the Amazon in order to observe nature and make a living by collecting .
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... and through him deriving a taste for the wonders of insect - life , opening to me a new aspect of nature , and later on finding in him a companion without whom I might never have ventured on my journey to the Amazon .
... and through him deriving a taste for the wonders of insect - life , opening to me a new aspect of nature , and later on finding in him a companion without whom I might never have ventured on my journey to the Amazon .
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| Pealkiri | My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, 1. köide My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions, Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Autor | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | Dodd, Mead, 1905 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 24 juuli 2007 |
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