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100	1		_aFrancé, R. H. _q(Raoul Heinrich), _d1874-1943
245	1	0	_aUrwald
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2026
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2026-02-27
508			_aThe Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520			_a"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. 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			_pOriginally published: _cStuttgart: Franckh'sche Verlagshandlung, 1928
653			_aForests and forestry -- Tropics
653			_aRain forests
700	1		_aOeffinger, Rudolf, _d1870-1952
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78056
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