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The Naturalist on the River Amazons

by Henry Walter Bates

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1863
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Henry Walter Bates left Leicester for Brazil in 1848 with Alfred Russel Wallace and stayed eleven years, most of them alone on the Amazon, shipping home more than fourteen thousand species of which roughly half were new to science. His 1863 account of those years moves between insects and people with the same steady curiosity: the discipline of army ants, a village festival, a sloth crossing a road, and the harmless butterflies that copy the wing patterns of poisonous ones, a trick now called Batesian mimicry after him. Darwin admired the book, and it earns that, because the observation is patient and the writing is warm instead of showy.

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Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) was an English naturalist and explorer, largely self taught, who spent eleven years on the Amazon and described the form of protective mimicry that bears his name. A friend of Darwin and Wallace, he later served for decades as secretary of the Royal Geographical Society.

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First published
1863
Reading time
About 13 hours
Pages
415
Language
English
Genre
Biology
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