Rather than cram every branch of natural history into a few pages, the author takes a handful of subjects and lingers over them: the make of the earth, the ocean and its creatures, the frozen north, and the heavens. Along the way come travellers’ accounts, among them Esquimaux stranded in a snow-house as the sea fills with ice.
A charming relic of nineteenth-century science writing for children from the American creator of Peter Parley. Download the free EPUB.