Thomas Belt spent four years managing gold mines in Nicaragua and filled his spare hours with observation of the forest around him. He writes of leaf-cutting ants and army ants, the partnership between acacias and their ants, insect mimicry and warning colours, and the people, towns and politics of Central America, all interpreted in the light of Darwin’s theory.
Darwin called it the best of all natural history journals, and naturalists still read it with delight. Download the free EPUB.