The Naturalist in NicaraguaThe Minerva Group, Inc., 2002 - 344 pages The best of all natural history journals which have ever been published.--Charles Darwin, 1874. Beautifully illustrated and a pleasure to read, this classic book describes the geography, geology, ecology, flora, fauna, and native inhabitants of Nicaragua in the nineteenth century. Many of Belt's detailed and accurate observations were not confirmed until decades later--for example, the fact that certain plants have standing armies of ants that defend them. |
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... those observations on tropical nature which his longer stay in Nicaragua gave rise to , and which are recorded in this book . Introduction xiii After his return from Central America , his xii The Naturalist in Nicaragua.
... those observations on tropical nature which his longer stay in Nicaragua gave rise to , and which are recorded in this book . Introduction xiii After his return from Central America , his xii The Naturalist in Nicaragua.
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Thomas Belt. Introduction xiii After his return from Central America , his services were in great request as a consulting mining engineer , and the succeeding years of his life were spent in almost continual travel : over all parts of ...
Thomas Belt. Introduction xiii After his return from Central America , his services were in great request as a consulting mining engineer , and the succeeding years of his life were spent in almost continual travel : over all parts of ...
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... Central America- Evidence that the ice extended to the tropics - Scarcity of gold in the valley gravels - Difference of the Mollusca on the east and west coast of the Isthmus of Darien - The refuge of the tropical American animals and ...
... Central America- Evidence that the ice extended to the tropics - Scarcity of gold in the valley gravels - Difference of the Mollusca on the east and west coast of the Isthmus of Darien - The refuge of the tropical American animals and ...
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... Central America all belonged to one stock - Decadence of Mexican civilisation before the arrival of the Spaniards - The designation " Nahuatls " proposed to include all the Mexican , Western Central American , and Peruvian races that ...
... Central America all belonged to one stock - Decadence of Mexican civilisation before the arrival of the Spaniards - The designation " Nahuatls " proposed to include all the Mexican , Western Central American , and Peruvian races that ...
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... Central America , the first half relieved the tedium of a long and slow recovery from the effects of an accident ... America ; some in the great forests of Central and South America ; some on the wide ocean , with the firmament above and ...
... Central America , the first half relieved the tedium of a long and slow recovery from the effects of an accident ... America ; some in the great forests of Central and South America ; some on the wide ocean , with the firmament above and ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 13 |
CHAPTER III | 27 |
CHAPTER IV | 37 |
CHAPTER V | 50 |
CHAPTER VI | 68 |
CHAPTER VII | 81 |
CHAPTER VIII | 98 |
CHAPTER XII | 165 |
CHAPTER XIII | 179 |
CHAPTER XIV | 191 |
CHAPTER XV | 211 |
CHAPTER XVI | 224 |
CHAPTER XVII | 236 |
CHAPTER XVIII | 250 |
CHAPTER XIX | 258 |
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