Our Search for a Wilderness
by Blair Niles
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About this eBook
- Author
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962
- Title
- Our search for a wilderness : An account of two ornithological expeditions to Venezuela and to British Guiana
- Original Publication
- New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1910.
- Credits
- Tim Lindell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Birds -- South America
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 75453
- Release Date
- February 23, 2025
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.OUR SEARCH FOR A WILDERNESS
- 3.Untitled
- 4.Untitled
- 5.Untitled
- 6.PREFACE. — Part I. — Part II.
- 7.CONTENTS.
- 8.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
- 9.PART I OUR FIRST SEARCH VENEZUELA
- 10.CHAPTER I. THE LAND OF A SINGLE TREE.
- 11.CHAPTER II. THE LAKE OF PITCH.
- 12.CHAPTER III. A WOMAN’S EXPERIENCES IN VENEZUELA. ( By Mary Blair Beebe. )
- 13.PART II OUR SECOND SEARCH BRITISH GUIANA
- 14.CHAPTER IV. GEORGETOWN.
- 15.CHAPTER V. STEAMER AND LAUNCH TO HOORIE CREEK.
- 16.CHAPTER VI. A GOLD MINE IN THE WILDERNESS. — LIFE ABOUT THE BUNGALOW. — A DAY IN THE JUNGLE NEAR HOORIE. — THE DROWNED FOREST. — THE CITY OF THE CASSIQUES. — NIGHT LIFE.
- 17.CHAPTER VII. THROUGH THE COASTAL WILDERNESS WITH INDIANS AND CANOE.
- 18.CHAPTER VIII. THE WATER TRAIL FROM GEORGETOWN TO AREMU.
- 19.CHAPTER IX. JUNGLE LIFE AT AREMU. SOME PAGES FROM MY DIARY. ( By C. William Beebe. )
- 20.CHAPTER X. JUNGLE LIFE AT AREMU. SOME PAGES FROM MY DIARY ( continued ). ( By C. William Beebe. )
- 21.CHAPTER XI. THE LIFE OF THE ABARY SAVANNAS. ( By C. William Beebe ).
- 22.FOOTNOTES
- 23.APPENDIX A. Classified List of Birds Mentioned in this Volume.
- 24.APPENDIX B. Native Guianan Names of Birds.
- 25.APPENDIX C. — ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HOORIE ORTHOPTERA. — NEW SPECIES OF MANTIS. — ALPHABETICAL LIST OF HOORIE MOTHS. — NEW SPECIES OF HOORIE MOTHS. — NEW GENERA AND NEW SPECIES OF HOORIE MOTHS.
- 26.INDEX.
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