Lives of labour, or, Incidents in the career of eminent naturalists and celebrated travellers

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C. L. Brightwell, C. L. Bright ...
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Lives of labour, or, Incidents in the career of eminent naturalists and celebrated travellers

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T. Nelson and Sons
Language
English
Pages
253

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Table of Contents

Linnæus naming the flowers
Sketch of the life and wanderings of Le Vaillant
Scenes in the life of Audubon
Voyages of François Peron, the zoologist
Bayard Taylor in the "Northern land"
Adanson's experience among the negroes
Labours of Pierre Lyonnet, the entomologist
Incidents in the lives of Latreille and d'Isjouvil
Incidents in the life of Sonnini
A sketch of the life of John Swammerdam
Alexander von Humboldt
An account of Joseph Dombey, the botanist
An incident in the life of Dufresnoy
Adventures of a missionary naturalist in the Nicobar Islands
Passages in the life of John Sibthorp
Pages from the Abbé Domenech's diary
Captain Mayne Reid and the quicksand
Perilous adventure of Bishop Stanley in an Alpine Pass
Visit of M. Huc to the Lamasery of Kounboum.

Edition Notes

Added title page and plates printed in colors.

These articles, with others, were published, 1861, under title: Romantic incidents in the lives of naturalists and celebrated travellers.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

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London
Series
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood, Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Other Titles
Incidents in the career of eminent naturalists and celebrated travellers

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1 online resource (253 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates)
Number of pages
253

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OL43824456M

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