 | Alfred Russel Wallace - Ethnology - 1869 - 376 pages
...country which no naturalist had ever resided in before, — a country which contained more strange and new and beautiful natural objects than any other part of the globe. The naturalist will be able to appreciate my feelings, sitting from morning to night in my little hut,... | |
 | Henry Walter Bates - Amazon River Valley - 2004 - 550 pages
...country which no naturalist had ever resided in before,—a country which contained more strange and new and beautiful natural objects than any other part of the globe. The naturalist will be able to appreciate my feelings, sitting from morning to night in my little hut,... | |
 | Paige West - Business & Economics - 2006 - 356 pages
...country which no naturalist had ever resided in before, — a country which contains more strange and new and beautiful natural objects than any other part of the globe" (ibid.: 504). Wallace's desire for birds of paradise was, however, not to be fulfilled in Dorey or... | |
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And this, too, in New Guinea ! — a country which I might never visit again, — a country which no naturalist had ever resided in before, — a country which contained more strange and new and beautiful natural objects than any other part of the globe.... 