TY - BOOK AU - Bates,Henry Walter TI - The Naturalist on the River Amazons T2 - Everyman's library, [no. 446] AV - QH PY - 2000/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Natural history -- Amazon River Valley KW - Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 -- Travel -- Amazon River Valley KW - Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Social life and customs KW - Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naturalist_on_the_River_Amazons; Release date is 2000-12-01; Martin Adamson; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Naturalist on the River Amazons" by Henry Walter Bates is a travel and natural history book published in 1863. It chronicles Bates's eleven-year expedition through the Amazon basin, where he and Alfred Russel Wallace sought new species and evidence for evolution. Bates collected over 14,000 species, discovering Batesian mimicry through butterfly observations. The book blends natural history with vivid descriptions of wildlife behavior, indigenous societies, and Brazilian life along the river, offering readers both scientific discovery and adventure without dwelling heavily on evolutionary theory. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2440 ER -