Book: Jungle Days 1923. With seven illustrations. William Beebe was one of this century's leading pioneers into the oceanic world. The Brooklyn, New York, native possessed an unrelenting curiosity about the natural world around, and beneath, him. Through his dozens of books describing his various expeditions, Beebe brought the average citizen in closer touch with the natural world. Beebe turned his focus away from pheasants to the tropical jungle and became director of the Zoological Park's new Department of Tropical Research. Contents: A Chain of Jungle Life; My Jungle Table; A Midnight Beach Combing; Falling Leaves; The Jungle Sluggard; Mangrove Mystery; The Life of Death; Old-Time People; and The Bird of the Wine-Colored Egg. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Details of Book: Jungle Days Book: Jungle Days
Author: William Beebe
ISBN: 1432606166
ISBN-13: 9781432606169
, 978-1432606169
Binding: Hardcover
Publishing Date: Jul 2004
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Number of Pages: 212
Language: English