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Himalayan Journals; Or, Notes of a Naturalist in Bengal, the Sikkim and Nepal Himalayas, the Khasia Mountains, Etc. [With Plates, Illustrations, Including a Portrait, a Facsimile, Maps and a Plan.]
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Journal of an Expedition Up the River Cuyuny, in British Guayana, in March 1837
A Trip to the Chinese Shan States
A Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books, Ancient and Modern, Comprising Works in Most Branches of Literature, Offered ... by Henry Sotheran & Co
Author: Sotheran, Firm, London
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Published: 1887
Total Pages: 724
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Himalayan Journals
Author: Joseph Dalton Hooker
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 374
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new edition, carefully revised and condensed.
Unruly Waters
Author: Sunil Amrith
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2018-12-11
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 0465097731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From a MacArthur "Genius," a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to tame its waters Asia's history has been shaped by her waters. In Unruly Waters, historian Sunil Amrith reimagines Asia's history through the stories of its rains, rivers, coasts, and seas--and of the weather-watchers and engineers, mapmakers and farmers who have sought to control them. Looking out from India, he shows how dreams and fears of water shaped visions of political independence and economic development, provoked efforts to reshape nature through dams and pumps, and unleashed powerful tensions within and between nations. Today, Asian nations are racing to construct hundreds of dams in the Himalayas, with dire environmental impacts; hundreds of millions crowd into coastal cities threatened by cyclones and storm surges. In an age of climate change, Unruly Waters is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand Asia's past and its future.
Essay on the Geography of Plants
Author: Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010-07-15
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 0226360687
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth century, and inspired such essayists and artists as Emerson, Goethe, Thoreau, Poe, and Church. The chronicles of the expedition were published in Paris after Humboldt’s return, and first among them was the 1807 “Essay on the Geography of Plants.” Among the most cited writings in natural history, after the works of Darwin and Wallace, this work appears here for the first time in a complete English-language translation. Covering far more than its title implies, it represents the first articulation of an integrative “science of the earth, ” encompassing most of today’s environmental sciences. Ecologist Stephen T. Jackson introduces the treatise and explains its enduring significance two centuries after its publication.
Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects
