Jungle days (Registro nro. 118443)
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| control field | UtSlPG |
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| control field | 20260610134812.0 |
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| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | 25013209 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | QL |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Beebe, William, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1877-1962 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Jungle days |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2026 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
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| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
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| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE | |
| General note | Release date is 2026-01-17 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Tim Lindell, chenzw, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Jungle days" by William Beebe is a collection of natural history essays written in the early 20th century. It offers vivid, first-hand explorations of tropical life—especially in British Guiana—blending close observation, dissection, and microscopy with lyrical reflections on ecology, behavior, and the interdependence of species.<br/><br/>The opening of the book traces a “chain of life” from a microscopic Opalina in a frog’s gut through tadpole, frog, fish, anaconda, owl, vulture, and finally the author and reader, built from a single field find of a vulture, owl, and snake intertwined and extended by dissection and microscope work. It then shifts to the author’s jungle worktable, where everyday specimens turn magical: table legs sprout leaves, a beetle’s hidden “music” ends in a trapped, jeweled adult, a roach gives birth to a swarm while gripped by a spider, and the anatomy of tinamous reveals how their sweet calls are made. He narrates a midnight beach combing—Milky Way overhead, a jolt from an electric eel, shadow-world hunts by a predatory daddy-long-legs, combative, amphibious mole crickets, and the warcraft of leaf-cutter ants whose tiny “minims” ride and defend the foragers—punctuated by tracks of toad and anaconda. Finally, a quiet meditation on falling leaves lingers on their sounds, a giant palm frond’s crash, the twitch of sensitive plants, and how wet versus dry leaf carpets shape the possibilities of stalking wildlife. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Animals -- Guyana |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://archive.org/details/jungledays00beeb/page/n7/mode/2up">https://archive.org/details/jungledays00beeb/page/n7/mode/2up</a> |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77723">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77723</a> |
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