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From North pole to equator

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From North pole to equator: studies of wild life and scenes in many lands

By

Brehm, Alfred Edmund, 1829-1884
Thomson, Margaret R.
Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933

Type

Book

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Publication info

London [etc.], Blackie & Son, Limited, [1896]

Notes

Contents: Introductory essay by the editor.--The bird-bergs of Lapland.--The tundra and its animal life.--The Asiatic steppes and their fauna.--The forests and sport of Siberia.--The steppes of inner Africa.--The primeval forests of Central Africa.--Migrations of mammals.--Love and courtship among birds.--Apes and monkeys.--Desert journeys.--Nubia and the Nile rapids.--A journey in Siberia.--The heathen Ostiaks.--Nomad herdsmen and herds of the steppes.--Family and social life among the Kirghiz.--Colonists and exiles in Siberia.--An ornithologist on the Danube.