The Animals of the World: Brehm's Life of Animals (Classic Reprint) Paperback – August 24, 2018

Life of A nimals, is one of the most fascinating works ever written upon natural history. The author devoted his life to a study of animate nature, seeking out the creatures in their wild state and making most intimate acquaintance with their habits, traits and characteristics. Many years were spent by him in the great forests, where he seemed to court danger in order that he might arrive at knowledge of the truth. The results of his studies and observations are shown in this masterly production, which, while detailing all the facts essential to scientific knowledge, clothes his narrative in descriptive details that hold the attention of old and young as strongly as the most thrilling romances. The new and revised edition of this work, carefully corrected and brought down by the scholarly Dr. William Haacke and Professor Pechuel-L oesche, the latter no less distinguished as an explorer than as a naturalist, has passed under the hands of Richard jJ llgBJIP Schmidtlein, the celebrated German naturalist and author, who has preserved in it all the rich and splendid material of the original, but has omitted details and descriptions of a strictly scientific nature, the object being to furnish a book for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Professor Schmidtlein, in his scholarly and entertaining revision, made such changes as the progress of modern science demanded and perfected his work in a manner to call forth the highest praise from critics everywhere. The present edition has been translated from the German by linguists of distinction who have in the happiest manner transferred to theE nglish tongue the rich, exuberant and fascinating style of the original ;while competent scholars have carefully revised the translation, making only such changes as were calculated to bring it closer to the mind of theE nglish reader. These changes are either in(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.) Read more