From North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands
A E Brehm
BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED, LONDON, GLASGOW AND EDINBURGH.
FROM NORTH POLE TO EQUATOR
STUDIES OF WILD LIFE AND SCENES IN MANY LANDS
BY THE NATURALIST-TRAVELLER
ALFRED EDMUND BREHM
AUTHOR OF “BIRD-LIFE”, “TIERLEBEN”, ETC. ETC.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY MARGARET R. THOMSON
EDITED BY J. ARTHUR THOMSON, M.A., F.R.S.E.
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LONDON
BLACKIE & SON, Limited, 50 OLD BAILEY, E.C. GLASGOW AND DUBLIN
Alfred Edmund Brehm
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PREFACE
PREFATORY NOTE
INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
THE BIRD-BERGS OF LAPLAND.
THE TUNDRA AND ITS ANIMAL LIFE.
THE ASIATIC STEPPES AND THEIR FAUNA.
THE FORESTS AND SPORT OF SIBERIA.
THE STEPPES OF INNER AFRICA.
THE PRIMEVAL FORESTS OF CENTRAL AFRICA.
THE MIGRATIONS OF MAMMALS.
LOVE AND COURTSHIP AMONG BIRDS.
APES AND MONKEYS.
DESERT JOURNEYS.
A JOURNEY IN SIBERIA.
THE HEATHEN OSTIAKS.
FAMILY AND SOCIAL LIFE AMONG THE KIRGHIZ.
COLONISTS AND EXILES IN SIBERIA.
AN ORNITHOLOGIST ON THE DANUBE.
INDEX.
