Hartwig surveys the equatorial regions of the globe: the diversity of tropical climates, the llanos, the puna of Peru and Bolivia, the Peruvian sand-coast, the Amazon and its primeval forests, the Mexican plateaus and the slopes of Sikkim, the Kalahari, and the animals and plants of each, with anecdotes such as the cobras of Ceylon’s snake-charmers.
A rich popular natural history of 1873; its chapters on tropical peoples reflect the racial attitudes of its day. Download the free EPUB.