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Although in the original preface to this work the British
naturalist Charles Waterton (1782 1865) modestly says his book has
'little merit', his account is a rich description of his
experiences in South America and the Caribbean. Waterton managed
his family's sugar plantations in Demerara from 1804 to 1812,
studied natural history, and later (1812 25) divided his time
between the Americas and Europe. This book, originally published in
1825 and reissued here in its 1828 second edition, describes his
four expeditions, beginning with his search deep in the rainforest
for samples of the rare poison, curare. Waterton also recounts a
fierce battle with the Maroons, but his main focus is zoology,
including the capture of 'an enormous Coulacara snake', encounters
with sloths, monkeys and vampire bats, and close observations of a
huge variety of birds. The final chapter describes Waterton's
methods of 'preserving birds for cabinets of natural history'.
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