Urwald (Registro nro. 118776)
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| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
| 041 #7 - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | de |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | SD |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Francé, R. H. |
| Fuller form of name | (Raoul Heinrich), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1874-1943 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Urwald |
| 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 |
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| General note | Release date is 2026-02-27 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Urwald" by R. H. Francé is a natural history travelogue written in the early 20th century. It blends clear ecological explanation with vivid firsthand impressions to depict tropical forests worldwide while correcting romantic clichés about “primeval jungle.” Readers can expect a tour of rainforest types, their plant–animal communities, and the lived experience of field travel across Ceylon/India, Australia, the South Seas, and the Americas.<br/><br/>The opening of the work recounts the author’s first landfall in Ceylon after years of book-fed longing, his realization that reality overturns clichés, and his intent to offer a lived portrait of tropical forests. He maps where true wilderness remains—above all the Amazon—and distinguishes major forest forms: ever-wet rainforest, riverine gallery forest, tidal mangrove, seasonally dry forests with park-like “campinas,” and the Australian scrub. He separates features common to any primeval forest from distinctly tropical adaptations (colorful and glossy leaves, drip-tips, air roots, swift decay, giant growth) and notes regional contrasts; the tropics also shelter many ancient lineages. In Ceylon/India he evokes broken canopies, magical half-light, rainbursts, and a riot of epiphytes, lianas, orchids, and ferns, alongside hazards such as leeches and thorny rattan; elephants, he notes, create light-gaps that renew the forest. He stresses many vertical layers and extreme tree diversity, with banyans forming living colonnades. Turning to Australia, he contrasts modern coasts with a waterless interior scrub dominated by eucalypts (some of extraordinary height), melaleuca, casuarina, acacias, spinifex, and grasstrees, and sketches a fauna of marsupials, monotremes, notable lizards, and striking insects, with Indigenous peoples living as nomadic hunter-gatherers. The next chapter opens on the vast Pacific and the first sight of reef-fringed islands whose little-visited interiors promise untouched forests, though surf and coral often prevent landing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | Stuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1928 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Forests and forestry -- Tropics |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Rain forests |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Oeffinger, Rudolf, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1870-1952 |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78056">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78056</a> |
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