The Tropical World / Aspects of man and nature in the equatorial regions of the globe.

G. Hartwig

PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

CHAPTER I. THE DIVERSITY OF CLIMATES WITHIN THE TROPICS.

CHAPTER II. THE LLANOS.

CHAPTER III. THE PUNA, OR THE HIGH TABLE-LANDS OF PERU AND BOLIVIA.

CHAPTER IV. THE PERUVIAN SAND-COAST.

CHAPTER V. THE AMAZONS, THE GIANT RIVER OF THE TORRID ZONE.

CHAPTER VI. THE PRIMEVAL FORESTS OF TROPICAL AMERICA.

CHAPTER VII. THE WILD INDIANS OF TROPICAL AMERICA.

CHAPTER VIII. THE MEXICAN PLATEAUS, AND THE SLOPES OF SIKKIM.

CHAPTER IX. THE KALAHARI AND THE BUSHMEN.

CHAPTER X. THE SAHARA.

CHAPTER XI. THE BEDOUINS OF ARABIA.

CHAPTER XII. GIANT TREES AND CHARACTERISTIC FORMS OF TROPICAL VEGETATION.

CHAPTER XIII. PALMS AND FERNS.

CHAPTER XIV. THE CHIEF ESCULENT PLANTS OF THE TORRID ZONE.

CHAPTER XV. SUGAR, COFFEE, CACAO, COCA.

CHAPTER XVI. TROPICAL PLANTS USED FOR INDUSTRIAL PURPOSES.

CHAPTER XVII. TROPICAL SPICES.

CHAPTER XVIII. TROPICAL INSECTS, SPIDERS, AND SCORPIONS.

CHAPTER XIX. INSECT PLAGUES AND INSECT SERVICES.

CHAPTER XX. THE MALAYAN RACE.

CHAPTER XXI. THE TROPICAL OCEAN.

CHAPTER XXII. THE PAPUANS AND POLYNESIANS.

CHAPTER XXIII. SNAKES.

CHAPTER XXIV. LIZARDS, FROGS AND TOADS.

CHAPTER XXV. TORTOISES AND TURTLES.

CHAPTER XXVI. CROCODILES AND ALLIGATORS.

CHAPTER XXVII. TROPICAL BIRD LIFE.

CHAPTER XXVIII. TROPICAL BIRDS OF PREY.

CHAPTER XXIX. THE OSTRICH AND THE CASSOWARY.

CHAPTER XXX. PARROTS.

CHAPTER XXXI. TROPICAL RUMINANTS AND EQUIDAE.

CHAPTER XXXII. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS.

CHAPTER XXXIII. THE RHINOCEROS.

CHAPTER XXXIV. THE ELEPHANT.

CHAPTER XXXV. TROPICAL FELIDAE.

CHAPTER XXXVI. THE AUSTRALIAN RACE.

CHAPTER XXXVII. THE SLOTH.

CHAPTER XXXVIII. ANT-EATERS.

CHAPTER XXXIX. TROPICAL BATS.

CHAPTER XL. APES AND MONKEYS.

CHAPTER XLI. THE AFRICAN NEGROES.

FOOTNOTES

INDEX.

GENERAL LIST OF WORKS PUBLISHED BY Messrs. LONGMANS, GREEN, READER, and DYER.

CATALOG INDEX.

Transcriber's Notes

Transcriber’s Note

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THE TROPICAL WORLD.

LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET

PRIMITIVE FOREST.

THE TROPICAL WORLD:

ASPECTS OF MAN AND NATURE
IN
THE EQUATORIAL REGIONS OF THE GLOBE.

BY
DR. G. HARTWIG,
AUTHOR OF ‘THE SEA AND ITS LIVING WONDERS,’ ‘THE SUBTERRANEAN WORLD,’
‘THE HARMONIES OF NATURE,’ AND ‘THE POLAR WORLD.’

WITH EIGHT CHROMOXYLOGRAPHIC PLATES AND NUMEROUS WOODCUTS.

NEW EDITION.

LONDON:
LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
1873.

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