The Forests of Upper India and Their InhabitantsE. Arnold, 1902 - 344 pàgines |
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Pàgina ix
... seen by a few . The human race seems actually to have sprung into existence as a forest animal , and the earliest instincts of mankind are now represented by the almost universal love of the chase . Romantic tales like that of Robin ...
... seen by a few . The human race seems actually to have sprung into existence as a forest animal , and the earliest instincts of mankind are now represented by the almost universal love of the chase . Romantic tales like that of Robin ...
Pàgina xii
... seen and incidents , sometimes exciting enough , which come in the ordinary course of a day's work in the forest . Lastly , I would try and justify the title of these pages by giving to the inquirer about forests some information as to ...
... seen and incidents , sometimes exciting enough , which come in the ordinary course of a day's work in the forest . Lastly , I would try and justify the title of these pages by giving to the inquirer about forests some information as to ...
Pàgina 4
... seen only rarely from Bareilly , on clear days glistening like opal among the clouds 100 miles away . No wonder that the natives of the plains reverence , and fear to approach , these mysterious moun- tains , and do not credit that any ...
... seen only rarely from Bareilly , on clear days glistening like opal among the clouds 100 miles away . No wonder that the natives of the plains reverence , and fear to approach , these mysterious moun- tains , and do not credit that any ...
Pàgina 9
... seen a herd of wild elephants climbing the steep slopes of China , and that he had had such shooting as he had nowhere else found the equal of . In those early days a very steep path had been engineered up the face of the precipice from ...
... seen a herd of wild elephants climbing the steep slopes of China , and that he had had such shooting as he had nowhere else found the equal of . In those early days a very steep path had been engineered up the face of the precipice from ...
Pàgina 14
... seen except in the clear atmosphere of the hills in the time of what is commonly called the cold season . A 12 - foot - by - 12 ' sholdarry ' tent , pitched on a terrace on the slope of the hillside facing the south , with a pleasant ...
... seen except in the clear atmosphere of the hills in the time of what is commonly called the cold season . A 12 - foot - by - 12 ' sholdarry ' tent , pitched on a terrace on the slope of the hillside facing the south , with a pleasant ...
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Pàgina 31 - SYMBOLIC EDUCATION : A COMMENTARY ON FROEBEL'S "MOTHER PLAY.
Pàgina 30 - Studies in Evolution. Being mainly Reprints of Occasional Papers selected from the Publications of the Laboratory of Invertebrate Paleontology, Peabody Museum. By CHARLES EMERSON BEECHER, Ph.D., Professor of Historical Geology.
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