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020 a| 0306459922 (paperback);

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245 00 a| By the light of the glow-worm lamp :b| three centuries of reflections on nature /c| edited by Alberto Manguel.;

300 a| ix, 373 pages ;c| 23 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-356) and index.;

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By the light of the glow-worm lamp : three centuries of reflections on nature / edited by Alberto Manguel.

Other author	Manguel, Alberto.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Plenum Trade, ©1998.
Description	ix, 373 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects	Natural history. Nature.

Contents	The Falkland Islands / Charles Darwin -- La Pampa / R. B. Cunninghame Graham -- The Atlantic forest / Thomas Belt -- The falls of Niagara / Two brothers (anonymous) -- Fauna and flora of Nevada / Mark Twain -- Shooting the rapids in a batteau / Henry David Thoreau -- Heavenly place / Priscilla Wakefield -- Three natural disasters / John James Audubon -- Hoyle's mouth / Philip Henry Gosse -- Prophetic autumn / Grant Allen -- A ramble in May / Charles A. Hall -- An October diary / Charles C. Abbot -- The Encantadas / Herman Melville -- Nightwatch / Annie Dillard -- Crusoe's Island / Daniel Defoe -- Journal 1866 / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Flowery Tuscany / D. H. Lawrence -- The marginal world / Rachel Carson -- Into the Amazon / Charles Waterton -- Birds of Siberia / Henry Seebohm -- The wild geese of Wyndygoul / Ernest Thompson Seton -- The crows / Richard Jeffries -- Why birds sing / Jacques Delamain -- Bird lists / John Clare -- Bird watching / Edmund Selous -- The temples of the hills / W. H. Hudson -- King penguins / Diane Ackerman -- The cat / Edward Topsell -- Real life of the beaver / John Timbs -- The Bonte-Quagga / Theodore Roosevelt, Edmund Heller -- The narwhal / Barry Lopez -- Monkeys / G. D. Hale Carpenter -- Three strokes of a dagger / J. H. Fabre -- The secret of the formicary / Maurice Maeterlinck -- Butterflies / Vladimir Nabokov -- 12,000,000 cod / Gustav Eckstein -- Common fish of an Indian garden / D. D. Cunningham -- Stars of the Earth / L. M. Budgen.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-356) and index.
LCCN	98026198
ISBN	0306459922 (paperback)
ISBN	0306459914 (hardbound)

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