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First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Bates lived and studied in Amazonian South America for a total of
eleven years, and is still regarded as one of the world's
pioneering naturalists and entomologists. This classic two-volume
work elucidates his concept of mimetic resemblance--known to this
day as "Batesian mimicry"--and displays his significant
contribution to the early development of the theory of natural
selection.
This is a reprint of the Bates family copy, the exclusive property
of the Natural History Museum, and includes a family tree of the
Leicester branch of Bates family. The volumes are richly
illustrated with numerous plates and a foldout map of Bates'
journey along the Amazon.
This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It
contains classical literature works from over two thousand years.
Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore
shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the
cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical
literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the
mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from
oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of
international literature classics available in printed format again
- worldwide.
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Japan and the Japanese (Paperback)
Aime Humbert; Translated by Frances Cashel Hoey; Edited by Henry Walter Bates
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Taking advantage of his diplomatic privilege in Japan to travel
further and inquire deeper than other foreigners, Swiss envoy Aime
Humbert (1819-1900) brought back stories of life under the Tokugawa
shogunate in its final years. First published in the journal Le
Tour du monde in 1866, his account of Japanese history and daily
life was republished as Le Japon illustre in 1870. This 1874
English translation brought readers up to date by including
additional chapters on the 1868 revolution and its aftermath.
Humbert focused his narrative on the history and culture of four
locations: Benten, the foreign settlement at Yokohama; Kyoto, where
emperors had resided for centuries; Kamakura, the old centre of
political power; and Yeddo, now Tokyo, the new capital of Japan.
Featuring almost 200 illustrations taken from Humbert's collection
of prints and photographs, this book captures descriptively and
pictorially a country on the verge of dramatic political and social
change.
This heavily illustrated book is an account of a German Arctic
expedition, published in 1873 4 by its commander Karl Koldewey
(1837 1908) and in this English translation in 1874. The states of
northern Germany had a long tradition of trade and exploration in
northern waters. As the German empire came into being, two major
expeditions were launched, both commanded by Koldewey. The second,
of 1869 70, consisted of two vessels, the Germania and the Hansa, a
supply ship. The Hansa became separated in fog, failed to reach the
fallback rendezvous, was icebound, and finally sank, while the crew
survived for nine months on a diminishing ice floe until they
reached the coast of Greenland in their surviving small boats. The
Germania reached the north of Greenland before encountering pack
ice, and was successful in surveying the coast and collecting
botanical specimens, before returning safely in 1870."
This charming book revolves around the two journals Bates produced
during his groundbreaking travels in the Amazon, and his classic
work The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Alongside specially
selected excerpts from his book are facsimile reproductions of the
pages from his journals demonstrating his talents as an artist as
well as a scientist. Bates, a trusted companion of Alfred Russel
Wallace, travelled with him to the Amazon in 1848. There he became
fascinated by close similarities in appearance between unrelated
butterflies. He found that so-called tasty species - those that are
sought after by predators - had evolved to look like toxic species
to escape being attacked. This idea became known as Batesian
mimicry. Bates spent a total of 11 years in the Amazon, exploring
the vast network of largely unvisited major rivers and their
tributaries, set in the world's largest area of tropical rain
forest in South America. By the time he returned to England in
1859, still only 34 years old, Bates had collected, by his own
estimate, some 712 species of mammals, reptiles, birds, fishes and
molluscs, and about 14,000 species of insects, of which no less
than 8,000 were previously unknown.
First published in 1863, this is a first-hand account of Henry
Walter Bates' eleven-year expedition to the river Amazon in 1848,
during which he discovered some eight thousand species unknown to
the natural sciences. Written in the first person, it records the
astonishing range of natural life in the regions traversed by the
Amazon and its tributaries. Describing his adventures south of the
equator, Bates takes the reader through Para, Tocantins, Cameta,
Marajo, Caripi, Obydos, Manos, Santarem, Tapajos, and Ega,
descriptively cataloguing the rich vegetation, aboriginal
population, and wondrous birds, animals and insects of these
regions. More than just a scientist's log, the work that took Bates
three years to complete was considered by Darwin to be 'the best
work of natural history travels ever published in England.' This
third edition of the book (1873) also contains numerous
illustrations by the noted zoologist Joseph Wolf.
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