From North Pole to Equator, Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in many Lands

Abstract

“BETWEEN North Pole and Equator” might have been a less attractive, but would have been a more accurate title for this book, for Siberia and northern Norway are not as far north as the Pole, nor are Nubia and the Blue Nile as far south as the Equator. Between these limits, however, the late Dr. A. E. Brehm made extensive journeys, visiting most of the principal types of country that may be found therein, and studying the characteristic faunas with the enthusiasm of a born naturalist. His great “Thierleben” is a rich repository of information on the habits of animals, the various groups of which are taken in zoological order. The present book appears to be intended as a supplement to this; for it is geographical in arrangement, and consists of a series of graphic sketches of wild life in many lands.

From North Pole to Equator, Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in many Lands.

By the Naturalist-Traveller, Alfred Edmund Brehm. Translated from the German by Margaret R. Thomson. Edited by J. Arthur Thomson, M.A., F.R.S.E. (London: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1896.)