One of the most impressive of all Victorian scientists but also a marvellous writer, Bates' (1825-1892) account of his years in the upper reaches of the Amazon is almost too good to be true - a great monument to human inquisitiveness as he battles gr...
IN April, 1848, the author of the present volume left England in company with Mr. A. R. Wallace-"who has since acquired wide fame in connection with the Darwinian theory of Natural Selection"-on a joint expedition up the river Amazons, for the purpos...