Edge of the Jungle

by William Beebe

Overview

Naturalist and world explorer William Beebe served as the director of the New York Zoological Society's Tropical Research Station in British Guiana (present day Guyana) in the years following World War I, during which time he kept extensive records of the wildlife in the Amazon rain forest. Edge of the Jungle collects twelve amusing and meditative essays by Beebe on the destructive and comical activities of army ants and their leaf-cutting vegetarian cousins, the flight of enormous bats, tarantulas and the hawks that hunt them, and many other fascinating forms of tropical life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781500160364
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	06/12/2014
Pages:	156
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.33(d)

About the Author

William Beebe, born Charles William Beebe (July 29, 1877 - June 4, 1962)[2] was an American naturalist, ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, explorer, and author. He is remembered for the numerous expeditions he conducted for the New York Zoological Society, his deep dives in the Bathysphere, and his prolific scientific writing for both academic and popular audiences.

Editorial Reviews

Mr. Beebe is a scientist, but he was certainly cut out for an epic poet. Where else is there such another combination of science and poetry, of observation and fancy, of fact and reveling, rioting, bejungled imagination?

Atlantic's Bookshelf

[Beebe's] writing is lucid; he exhibits an impeccable taste in verbal imagery; and he can, when he chooses, carry off a lyric flight without faltering or appearance of affectation. Apart from all other qualities, Edge of the Jungle is notable for its purely literary excellence.

The Nation