...Clifford Evans Hiléia amazônica. Aspectos da flora, fauna, arqueología e etnografía indígenas . Third edition. By Cruls Gastão . Rio de Janeiro , 1958 . Livraria José Olympio Editora . Coleção Documentos Brasileiros, 101 . Bibliographies. Illustrations. Glossary. Index . Pp. xvi...

...Preston E. James Enciclopedia yucatanense conmemorativa del IV centenario de Mérida y Valladolid ( Yucatán ) Tomo I. Introducción. Geografía física. Fauna. Flora . Publicada bajo la dirección de . . . Trujillo Carlos Echánove . [ Edición Oficial del Gobierno de Yucatán .] ( Mexico...

... Basin, Arid Plateaus and Clay Deserts, Northeastern Brazil; and Glaciers, Lakes, and Dismal Straits, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego. The South American mammalian fauna is, of course, of special interest with its surviving relatives of the camels—the llamas, alpacas, and vicunas, as well as monkeys...

..., fauna, and indigenous customs in Guatemala and Central America generally. A Pocket Eden “paints a remarkably fresh, perhaps classic, picture of a Victorian lady’s confrontation with colonial culture,” providing in the process a telling firsthand account of the reach of Britain’s “informal empire” (p...

... and early twentieth centuries. Nineteenth-century naturalists, travelers, and painters socialized North Atlantic audiences into a number of conventions about tropical fauna and flora that would later prove very difficult to dislodge. Illustrations crammed widely dispersed fauna and flora into a single...

..., a lengthy description of the pineapple and other flora and fauna, and Juan Cano’s scathing attack on Cortés’s atrocities (including the infamous burning of Cuauhtémoc’s feet). Oviedo’s work has also become widely known for the first drawings of American flora and fauna. Myers presents all...

... Madre fauna. Wendell C. Bennett of the American Museum of Natural History was accompanied by Robert Zingg, still a doctoral student at Chicago. In 1935, the University of Chicago Press published their jointly authored results in The Tarahumara: An Indian Tribe of Northern Mexico . Zingg went...

... and distributing this text. The Historia had five authors: Piso, Markgraf, and three unknown ones. Johannes De Laet wrote the introduction and was the editor. Until the mid-nineteenth century, it was the most important scientific publication on Brazilian flora and fauna, and it was partly based on Johan...

... unequaled in the modern world). The book also emphasizes the circulation of knowledge across space. Drawing on sources from Central and South America, Cooley shows how the introduction of Old World species into the New World changed the native fauna, whether through hybridization, in the case of dogs...

... astronomical observations in Baja, and a plague that killed many members of both the expedition (including Chappe d’Auteroche) and the Indian population of the area. There are some detailed descriptions of flora, fauna, insects, and landscape and only fleeting references to the way people lived. ...

..., it is mostly a thorough description of the flora and the fauna of the places visited. In addition to the highly detailed descriptions, extensive travel instructions are given. Charles Waterton was primarily a conservationist and his preoccupation with conservation is evident as he provides travel instructions...

... of the development of “Los Cambas: Un Pueblo Emergente,” and educator A. Peredo’s outline of “Evolución de la Instrucción Pública.” Other brief essays, for the most part anecdotal, deal with flora and fauna, demography, development of means of transportation, incipient industrialization, local heroes, and other...

..., seen in the first and the last four chapters, concerns himself with geography, history, politics, flora, fauna, and geology. A catchall appendix ranges from a Quiche prayer to weights and measures. Dr. Wilson Popenoe might have added to his five-page Introduction a few more helpful perspectives...

... in matuto linguistic expressions and descriptions of religious holidays, culinary favorites, the clay figurines of Caruaru’s market, folk medicine, Christmas eve mass, the toil of sugar cane workers, the luxuriant foliage and fauna of the Engenho Graúna. The ordinary and the bizarre, the humorous...

... of foreign naturalists and their inventories of local flora and fauna, the importance of the development of an encyclopedic vision of the country, and the tendency of early writers to look at Brazil through European eyes. She also discusses such matters as the existence of private libraries in the colonial...

... of his work, many published here for the first time, and with a selection from his texts. Catlin’s writing shows a pleasant narrative and descriptive style, together with a sense of wonder. His purpose, however, is to render accurate accounts of the geology, flora and fauna and, above all...

... important flora and fauna. The author fortunately is not a devotee of the school of quantification, for he realizes that not everything can be reduced to statistics. There is an execellent discussion of systems of land tenure: the early Spaniards had simply robbed the Indians, first of their corn...

... Indian cultures. The text is supplemented by many interesting drawings which portray not only flora and fauna but also daily life. Libraries not holding previous editions might well want to consider this new two-volume edition. The four-volume study, originally written in Spanish, was completed...

... voyage through the West Indies, involving geographic, astronomical, and chronological issues. Other matters receive less attention. There is little on fauna, less on flora, and ethnographic concerns are almost totally ignored. Yet, to scholars concerned with these subjects, as well as those debating...

... Pleistocene animals and that major climatic changes had occurred since then. Such a theory was subsequently rejected by most American archaeologists until its revival by the discovery of evidence of man associated with extinct fauna at Folsom, New Mexico in 1927. ...