Tales from the jungle : a rainforest reader /
Tales of the rain forest inspired by personal experiences. The subjects range from lessons in head shrinking to growing larva under your scalp in order to study the food chain. The authors include biologists, explorers, novelists and environmentalists.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Crown Trade Paperbacks,
[1995]
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / George Plimpton
- Beyond Here Be Dragons: The Explorers. The Finding of Livingstone / Henry Morton Stanley. From M'Fetta to Egaja / Mary Kingsley. In Captivity / Hans Staden. The River of Doubt / Theodore Roosevelt. The Black Beach / Archie Carr. Cahill Among the Ruins in Peru / Tim Cahill. Pa Lampung Padan's Sewing Machine / Eric Hansen. The Last Eden / Eugene Linden
- Observations. Business and Pleasure in Brazil / Ulick Ralph Burke. The Durion / Alfred Russel Wallace. The Jivaro Heads / F. W. UpdeGraff. Hammock Nights / William Beebe. The Jungle of Ceylon / Pablo Neruda. The Menkranoti / Alex Shoumatoff
- Adventure Gone Bad: Things That Go Bump in the Night. The Man-Eating Tree / Carl Liche. A Swarm of Beetles / John Hanning Speke. A Black Stream of Death / Arkady Fiedler. Rumors of a Snake / David Quammen. Jerry's Maggot / Adrian Forsyth and Kenneth Miyata. The Snake Doctor / Douglas Adams and Mark Carwardine
- The Jungle in the Mind: The Forests in Fiction. The Head of the Ethiopian / H. Rider Haggard. The Elephant's Child / Rudyard Kipling. Wonderful Things Happened / Arthur Conan Doyle. The Call of the Primitive / Edgar Rice Burroughs. From Into the Heart of Darkness / Joseph Conrad. The Mysterious Sound / W. H. Hudson. A Chance for Mr. Lever / Graham Greene. The Outstation / W. Somerset Maugham. From At Play in the Fields of the Lord / Peter Matthiessen
- The Fate of the Forests: The Future. "I Don't Want Flowers at My Funeral" / Andrew Revkin. Gorillas and Their People / John Heminway. Bernhardsdorp / Edward O. Wilson. Interview with Ailton Krenak / Susanna Hecht and Alexander Cockburn. Sympathy for the Devil / David Quammen. Why Save Tropical Forests? / Norman Myers.