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Edge of the Jungle collects twelve amusing and heartfelt essays by naturalist Beebe on the destructive and comical activities of army ants and their leaf-cutting vegetarian cousins, the flight of enormous bats, tarantulas and the hawks that hunt them, and many other fascinating forms of tropical life.

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Mr. Beebe is a scientist, but he was certainly cut out for an epic poet. Where else is there such another combination of science and poetry, of observation and fancy, of fact and reveling, rioting, bejungled imagination? * Atlantic's Bookshelf *
[Beebe's] writing is lucid; he exhibits an impeccable taste in verbal imagery; and he can, when he chooses, carry off a lyric flight without faltering or appearance of affectation. Apart from all other qualities, Edge of the Jungle is notable for its purely literary excellence. * The Nation *

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    A Paperback / softback by William Beebe, Robert Finch

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      Publisher: Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 10/09/2001
      ISBN13: 9780815411604, 978-0815411604
      ISBN10: 081541160X

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Edge of the Jungle collects twelve amusing and heartfelt essays by naturalist Beebe on the destructive and comical activities of army ants and their leaf-cutting vegetarian cousins, the flight of enormous bats, tarantulas and the hawks that hunt them, and many other fascinating forms of tropical life.

      Trade Review
      Mr. Beebe is a scientist, but he was certainly cut out for an epic poet. Where else is there such another combination of science and poetry, of observation and fancy, of fact and reveling, rioting, bejungled imagination? * Atlantic's Bookshelf *
      [Beebe's] writing is lucid; he exhibits an impeccable taste in verbal imagery; and he can, when he chooses, carry off a lyric flight without faltering or appearance of affectation. Apart from all other qualities, Edge of the Jungle is notable for its purely literary excellence. * The Nation *

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