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A Naturalist in the Amazon Henry Walter Bates

A Naturalist in the Amazon By Henry Walter Bates

A Naturalist in the Amazon by Henry Walter Bates


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This book documents Bates' ground-breaking Amazon exploration, with pages from his illustrated notebooks and excerpts from what Charles Darwin called 'the best book of natural history travels ever published'.

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A Naturalist in the Amazon: The Journals & Writings of Henry Walter Bates by Henry Walter Bates

This charming book revolves around the two journals Bates produced during his groundbreaking travels in the Amazon, and his classic work The Naturalist on the River Amazons. Alongside specially selected excerpts from his book are facsimile reproductions of the pages from his journals demonstrating his talents as an artist as well as a scientist. Bates, a trusted companion of Alfred Russel Wallace, travelled with him to the Amazon in 1848. There he became fascinated by close similarities in appearance between unrelated butterflies. He found that so-called tasty species - those that are sought after by predators - had evolved to look like toxic species to escape being attacked. This idea became known as Batesian mimicry. Bates spent a total of 11 years in the Amazon, exploring the vast network of largely unvisited major rivers and their tributaries, set in the world's largest area of tropical rain forest in South America. By the time he returned to England in 1859, still only 34 years old, Bates had collected, by his own estimate, some 712 species of mammals, reptiles, birds, fishes and molluscs, and about 14,000 species of insects, of which no less than 8,000 were previously unknown.

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The best book of Natural History Travels ever published in England, said Charles Darwin of entomologist Henry Walter Batess 1863 'The Naturalist on the River Amazons', an 11-year journal inspired partly by Darwins diary of his 183136 journey on the HMS Beagle. This enchanting part-facsimile justifies his words." Nature

About Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates was born in Leicester in 1825. He was a naturalist and explorer whose theory on Batesian mimicry provided powerful early support for Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

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NPB9780565094621
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A Naturalist in the Amazon: The Journals & Writings of Henry Walter Bates by Henry Walter Bates
New
Hardback
The Natural History Museum
2020-03-19
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