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Tropical Nature
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Author : Adrian Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2011-05-24
Tropical Nature written by Adrian Forsyth and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-24 with Travel categories.
Seventeen marvelous essays introducing the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Tropical Nature
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Author : Adrian Forsyth
language : en
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner
Release Date : 1984
Tropical Nature written by Adrian Forsyth and has been published by New York : C. Scribner this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Nature categories.
A lively, lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its seventeen marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants, and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. Includes a lengthy appendix of practical advice for the tropical traveler.
Tropical Nature And Other Essays
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Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
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Author : Tropical nature
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1876
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Picturing Tropical Nature
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Author : Nancy Stepan
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2001
Picturing Tropical Nature written by Nancy Stepan and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are, Picturing Tropical Nature argues, largely a construct of American and European imaginations. Nancy Leys Stephan asserts that images of the tropics conveyed through drawings, paintings, photographs, literature, and travel writings are central to what Stepan calls the "tropicalization of nature," or the often harmful misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples. She here examines several aspects of such tropicalization as they emerge through the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Louis Agassiz, Sir Patrick Manson, and Margaret Mee. From the earliest photographic attempts to represent tropical hybrid races to depictions of disease in new tropical medicines, Picturing Tropical Nature offers new insight into the convergence of the tropics with European and American science and art. "A brilliant and provocative book . . . the kind of book that carries forward a field in a single stride . . . undoubtedly the finest account of 'tropicality' we have."--Social History of Medicine
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Tropical Nature And Other Essays
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Author : Alfred Russel Wallace
language : en
Publisher: Library of Alexandria
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It is difficult for an inhabitant of our temperate land to realize either the sudden and violent contrasts of the arctic seasons or the wonderful uniformity of the equatorial climate. The lengthening or the shortening days, the ever-changing tints of spring, summer, and autumn, succeeded by the leafless boughs of winter, are constantly recurring phenomena which represent to us the established course of nature. At the equator none of these changes occur; there is a perpetual equinox and a perpetual summer, and were it not for variations in the quantity of rain, in the direction and strength of the winds, and in the amount of sunshine, accompanied by corresponding slight changes in the development of vegetable and animal life, the monotony of nature would be extreme. In the present chapter it is proposed to describe the chief peculiarities which distinguish the equatorial from the temperate climate, and to explain the causes of the difference between them,—causes which are by no means of so simple a nature as are usually imagined. The three great divisions of the earth—the tropical, the temperate, and the frigid zones, may be briefly defined as the regions of uniform, of variable, and of extreme physical conditions respectively. They are primarily determined by the circumstance of the earth’s axis not being perpendicular to the plane in which it moves round the sun; whence it follows that during one half of its revolution the north pole, and during the other half the south pole, is turned at a considerable angle towards the source of light and heat. This inclination of the axis on which the earth rotates is usually defined by the inclination of the equator to the plane of the orbit, termed the obliquity of the ecliptic. The amount of this obliquity is 23½ degrees, and this measures the extent on each side of the equator of what are called the tropics, because within these limits the sun becomes vertical at noon twice a year, and at the extreme limit once a year, while beyond this distance it is never vertical. It will be evident, however, from the nature of the case, that the two lines which mark the limits of the geographical “tropics” will not define any abrupt change of climate or physical conditions, such as characterise the tropical and temperate zones in their full development. There will be a gradual transition from one to the other, and in order to study them separately and contrast their special features we must only take into account the portion of each in which these are most fully exhibited. For the temperate zone we may take all countries situated between 35° and 60° of latitude, which in Europe will include every place between Christiania and Algiers, the districts further south forming a transitional belt in which temperate and tropical features are combined. In order to study the special features of tropical nature, on the other hand, it will be advisable to confine our attention mainly to that portion of the globe which extends for about twelve degrees on each side of the equator, in which all the chief tropical phenomena dependent on astronomical causes are most fully manifested, and which we may distinguish as the “equatorial zone.” In the debateable ground between these two well contrasted belts local causes have a preponderating influence; and it would not be difficult to point out localities within the temperate zone of our maps, which exhibit all the chief characteristics of tropical nature to a greater degree than other localities which are, as regards geographical position, tropical.
Tropical Nature And Other Essays
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Author : ALFRED R. WALLACE
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
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Tropical Nature
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Author : UNKNOWN. AUTHOR
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2015-07-20
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Excerpt from Tropical Nature: An Account of the Most Remarkable Phenomena of Life in the Western Tropics Wherever there is sufficient moisture to allow the productive power of the soil to act, the regions bordering upon the Equator are characterised by luxuriance and variety; and when, as in some parts of America, the temperature is modified by the difference of elevation of various districts, those characteristics are enhanced to a degree of which the inhabitant of a temperate clime can scarcely form any commensurate idea. When Columbus first approached the coast of Paria and Cumana, in what has since been formed into the Republic of Columbia, he was so much delighted with the beauty and fertility of those regions that he believed he had discovered the garden in which Adam was originally placed by his Creator; and Brazil so abounds in all that can gratify the eye, the ear, and the palate, that Europeans who have settled there lose all wish to return to their native land; and if compelled by business to revisit it, are impatient to return, and 'celebrate Brazil as the fairest and most glorious country on the surface of the globe.' In Central and South America all the features of nature are on a grand scale; the rivers are larger, the gulfs more capacious, the mountains higher and more precipitous, than almost all others in the world. The Amazon drains a surface of more than 2,000,000 of square miles, its course from its rise to its mouth is nearly 4000 miles, and the quantity of water it pours into the ocean is estimated to be ten times as much as is discharged by any other river. The mouth of the La Plata is nearly 170 miles in width, and the flow of its stream can be perceived at sea 200 miles from the coast. Thirty active volcanoes are situated amongst the mountains, and they contain precipitous rents of more than a mile in depth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author : Tropical Nature
language : en
Publisher: Palala Press
Release Date : 2016-05-21
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