REVIEWS OF NATURALIST-IN BOOKS

 

 

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1.    Lawrence W. Swan 2000.  Tales of the Himalaya: Adventures of a Naturalist.  La Crescenta, California: Mountain N Air  232 pp. [PDF]

2.    R.C.H. Sweeney 1965.  The Scurrying Bush.  New York: Random House  208 pp.  [East Africa] [PDF]

3.    W.H. Hudson 1892 (1988).  The Naturalist in La Plata.  New York: Dover  394 pp.  [Argentina] [PDF]

4.    Brent Wilson 2005.  Living on an Arc.  St Augustine: Publ. by author  310 pp.  [Nevis, West Indies] [PDF]

5.    Tim Flannery 1998.  Throwim Way Leg.  Melbourne: Text  326 pp.  [New Guinea] [PDF]

6.    Mikhail Prishvin 1951.  The Lake and the Woods.  London: Routledge & Kegan Paul  258 pp.  [Russia] [PDF]

7.    Mary E. Gillham 1966.  A Naturalist in New Zealand.  London: Museum Press  285 pp. [PDF]

8.    Percy R. Lowe 1911.  A Naturalist on Desert Islands.  London: Witherby  230 pp.  [West Indies] [PDF]

9.    Barry P. Moore 1978.  Life on Forty Acres.  Faringdon: E. Classey  184 pp.  [Australia] [PDF]

10.  John Graham Kerr 1950.  A Naturalist in the Gran Chaco.  Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press  234 pp.  [Paraguay] [PDF]

11.  Alexander F. Skutch 1971.  A Naturalist in Costa Rica.  Gainesville: Univ. Florida Press  378 pp. [PDF]

12.  Charles J. Cornish 1902.  The Naturalist on the Thames.  London: Seeley  260 pp.  [England] [PDF]

13.  William Beebe's Guyana books: [PDF]

           1918.  Jungle Peace.  New York: Henry Holt  297 pp.

           1921.  Edge of the Jungle.  Garden City, NY: Garden City  303 pp.

           1925.  Jungle Days.  New York: G.P. Putnam 201 pp.

14.  Robert A. Hedeen 1982.  Naturalist on the Nanticoke.  Centreville, Maryland: Tidewater  170 pp.  [Chesapeake Bay, USA] [PDF]

15.  George Gaylord Simpson 1934.  Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal.  New York: Macmillan  295 pp.  [Argentina] [PDF]

16.  Archie F. Carr 1994.  A Naturalist in Florida.  New Haven: Yale Univ. Press  264 pp. [PDF]

17.  Richard Ffrench 2007.  A Naturalist’s Year.  Port of Spain: Prospect  173 pp.  [Trinidad, West Indies] [PDF]

18.  John Muir 1915. Travels in Alaska. Boston: Houghton Mifflin 326 pp. [PDF]

19.  F. Fraser Darling. 1939. A Naturalist on Rona.  Oxford: Clarendon 137 pp. [Scotland] [PDF]

20.  Ernest Henry Wilson 1913. A Naturalist in Western China. Vol. 1.  New York: Doubleday  251 pp. [PDF]

21.  Victor Howells 1957.  A Naturalist in Palestine.  New York: Philosophical Library  180 pp. [PDF]

22.  Alfred Alcock 1902.  A Naturalist in Indian Seas.  London: John Murray  328 pp. [PDF]

23.  Frank Kingdon Ward 1913. The Land of the Blue Poppy. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press 283 pp. [Himalayas] [PDF]

24.  Jim Conrad 1991.  On the Road to Tetlama.  New York: Walker  196 pp. [Mexico] [PDF]

25.  Gary Paul Nabhan 1993.  Songbirds, Truffles, and Wolves.  New York: Penguin  887 pp. [Italy] [PDF]

26.  Gilbert C. Klingel 1940.  Inagua.  New York: Dodd  385 pp. [Bahamas] [PDF]

27.  Ken Lamberton 2000.  Wilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist's Observations from Prison.  San Francisco: Mercury House  218 pp. [Arizona, USA] [PDF]

28.  Gilbert White 1789.  The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.  London: Benjamin White  468 pp. [England] [PDF]

29.  Mary Taylor Young 2002.  Land of Grass and Sky.  Englewood, Colorado: Earth Tales  160 pp. [prairie states, USA] [PDF]

30.  Henry Walter Bates 1864.  The Naturalist on the River Amazons.   2nd ed. London: John Murray  394 pp. [PDF]

31.  Alfred Russel Wallace 1869.  The Malay Archipelago Vol. 1-2.  London: Macmillan  638 pp. [PDF]

32.  Thomas Barbour 1945.  A Naturalist in Cuba.  Boston: Little Brown  317 pp. [PDF]

33. Joanna Burger. 1996. A Naturalist Along the Jersey Shore. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers Univ. Press 304 pp. [PDF]

34. Thomas Belt 1874. The Naturalist in Nicaragua. London: John Murray 403 pp. [PDF]

35. Howard Ensign Evans 1963. Wasp Farm. Garden City, NY: Natural History Press 178 pp. [New York state, USA] [PDF]

36. Theodore H. Fleming 2003. A Bat Man in the Tropics. Berkeley: Univ. California Press 311 pp. [Central America] [PDF]

37. Adolph Murie 1961. A Naturalist in Alaska. New York: Devin-Adair 302 pp. [PDF]

38. C. Brooke Worth 1967. A Naturalist in Trinidad. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 297 pp. [PDF]

39. Henry David Thoreau 1854.  Walden; or, Life in the Woods.  Boston: Tickner & Fields  357 pp. [Massachusetts, USA] [PDF]

          Edward Abbey 1968.  Desert Solitaire.  New York: McGraw-Hill  269 pp.; [Utah, USA]

40. Allen M. Young 1991.  Sarapiquí Chronicle.  Washington: Smithsonian Inst. Press  301 pp. [Costa Rica] [PDF]

41. John Alcock on the Sonoran Desert  [Arizona, USA] [PDF]

          John Alcock 1985.  Sonoran Desert Spring.  Chicago: Univ. Chicago Press  194 pp.;

          John Alcock 1990.  Sonoran Desert Summer.  Tucson: Univ. Arizona Press  187 pp.; 

          John Alcock 2009.  When the Rains Come: A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert.  Tucson: Univ. Arizona Press  334 pp. 

42. Philip Henry Gosse 1851.  A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica..  London: Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans   508 pp. [PDF]

43. Philip Henry Gosse 1853.  A Naturalist's Rambles on the Devonsire Coast..  London: J. Van Voorst  451 pp. [PDF]

           Philip Henry Gosse 1865.  A Year at the Shore..  London: A. Strahan  327 pp. [England] [PDF]

44. Raymond B. Cowles 1959.  Zulu Journal..  Berkeley: Univ. California Press  267 pp. [South Africa] [PDF]

45. S. Theodore Baskaran 1999.  The Dance of the Sarus.  [India] [PDF]

46. Frederick A. Ober 1880.  Camps in the Caribbees.  [Lesser Antilles] [PDF]

47. Eleanor Mathews 2003.  Ambassador to the Penguins.  [Sub-Antartic islands] [PDF]

48. F.W. Burbidge 1880.  The Gardens of the Sun.  [Borneo] [PDF]

49. Odoardo Beccari 1904.  Wanderings in the Great Forests of Borneo.  [PDF]

50. Charles Hose 1929.  The Field-Book of a Jungle Wallah. 

           Robert W. Shelford 1916.  A Naturalist in Borneo.
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