Kingston, best known for boys’ sea stories, surveys the two Americas in a series of picturesque sketches written for the family circle. He describes their physical geography and mineral wealth, forests and plants, insects and birds, such as those that build cone-shaped nests against lightning, the great mammals, and the native peoples, whom he portrays through the assumptions of a Victorian traveller.
A broad and readable Victorian natural history of the New World, best enjoyed for its period flavour. Download the free EPUB.