From North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands

From North Pole to Equator: Studies of Wild Life and Scenes in Many Lands

TO THE GERMAN EDITION. Six years have passed since the grave at Renthendorf closed over the remains of my esteemed father, whose deathall too earlywas as great a loss to Science as to those who loved and honoured him. It was strange that his eventful and adventurous life, in the course of which he visited and explored four quarters of the globe, should have ended at the little spot in green Thuringia where he was born. He had just reached his fifty-fifth year when his lips, so apt in speech, were silenced, and the pen which he held so masterfully dropped from his hand. He was full of great plans as to various works, and it is much to be regretted that the notes which he had collected towards the realization of these were too fragmentary for anyone but their author to utilize. But the manuscripts which he left contained many a treasure, and it seemed to me a duty, both to the author and to all friends of thoughtful observation, to make these available to the reading public. The following pages form the first book of the kind, and contain the most valuable part of the legacyAlfred Edmund Brehms lectures, once so universally popular. I believe that, in giving these pages to the world, I am offering a gift which will be warmly welcomed, and I need add no commendatory words of mine, for they speak adequately for themselves. Writing replaces spoken words very imperfectly, and my[Pg vi] father, who was never tied down to his paper, may often have delivered the same matter in different forms according to the responsiveness of his audience, abbreviating here, expanding thereyet to anyone who has heard him the following pages will recall his presence and the tones of his sonorous voice; everyone will not only recognize in them the individuality of the author of the Tierleben (Animal Life) and Bird Life, but will learn to know him in a new and attractive side of his character. For it is my fathers lectures almost more than any other of his works which show the wealth of his experiences, the many-sidedness of his knowledge, his masterly powers of observation and description, and not least his delicate kindly humour and the sympathetic interpretation of animate and inanimate nature which arose from his deeply poetic temperament. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 68142
Author: Brehm, Alfred Edmund
Release Date: May 21, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Blackie & Son, Limited
Publication Date: 1896
Publisher Country: United Kingdom

Contributors

Editor: Thomson, J. Arthur (John Arthur), 1861-1933

Translator: Thomson, Margaret R.