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The naturalist in Nicaragua / Thomas Belt ; with a foreword by Daniel H. Janzen.
LIBRA QH108.N5 B45 1985
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belt, Thomas, 1832-1878.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural history--Nicaragua.
- Natural history.
- Nicaragua--Description and travel.
- Nicaragua.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 403 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1985]
- Summary:
- "The best of all natural history journals which have ever been published."--Charles Darwin, 1874. Beautifully illustrated and a pleasure to read, this classic book describes the geography, geology, ecology, flora, fauna, and native inhabitants of Nicaragua in the nineteenth century. Many of Belt's detailed and accurate observations were not confirmed until decades later--for example, the fact that certain plants have "standing armies" of ants that defend them.
- Notes:
- Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Murray, 1874.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0226042197 :
- OCLC:
- 12050153
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