Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: life, island
Number of Pages: 540
Published: 2007-05-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1602065039
ISBN-13: 9781602065031

"For many years Alfred Russel Wallace traveled the globe, observing fauna and flora and wondering whether the environment in which they lived affected their development. Island Life, a classic of scientific literature, is the result of those studies. In it, he examines a variety of biospheres to determine whether species are immutable (as was long thought), regardless of changing conditions in their surroundings, or are in fact capable of adapting in order to survive. Island Life is divided into two parts: ¿The Dispersal of Organisms: Its Phenomena, Laws, and Causes¿ and ¿Insular Faunas and

Author: Francis W. Halsey
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: ireland, vol, britain, authors, europe, famous, seeing
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1596058021
ISBN-13: 9781596058026

I met near the base a young gentleman from Edinburgh who had left Rowardennan before us, and we commenced ascending together... We soon attained the summit, and, climbing up a little mound of earth and stones, I saw the half of Scotland at a glance. The clouds hung just above the mountain-tops, which rose all around like the waves of a mighty sea. On every side, near and far, stood their misty summits, but Ben Lomand was the monarch of them all. -from "Ben Lomand and the Highland Lakes," by Bayard Taylor From the era from a trip to the Continent was rarer but more deeply appreciated comes an e

Author: Francis W. Halsey
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: france, netherlands, part, one, iii, volume, europe, famous, authors, seeing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 159605803X
ISBN-13: 9781596058033

The most prejudiced will not deny that Paris is beautiful; or that there is about her streets and broad, tree-lined avenues a graciousness at once dignified and gay. Stand, as the ordinary tourist does on his first day, in the flowering square before the Louvre; in the foreground are the fountains and bright tulip-bordered paths of the Tuileries-here a glint of gold, there a soft flash of marble statuary, shining through the trees... -from "The City Beautiful," by Anne Warwick From the era from a trip to the Continent was rarer but more deeply appreciated comes an enchanting literary travelogu

Author: Francis W. Halsey
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: hungary, switzerland, part, austria, germany, europe, famous, authors, seeing
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1596058064
ISBN-13: 9781596058064

Cracow, old, tired and dispirited, speaks and thinks only of the ruinous past. When you drive into Cracow from the station for the first time, you are breathless, smiling, and tearful all at once; in the great Ring-platz-a mass of old buildings-Cracow seems to hold out her arms to you-those long sides that open from the corner where the cab drives in. - from "Cracow," by Ménie Muriel Dowie From the era from a trip to the Continent was rarer but more deeply appreciated comes an enchanting literary travelogue assembled from the hearts and minds of some of the greatest wordsmiths in the English

Author: Francis W. Halsey
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: netherlands, part, france, authors, europe, famous, seeing
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1596058048
ISBN-13: 9781596058040

The great beauty of Biarritz is its setting. At Monte Carlo the setting is also beautiful, ravishingly beautiful, but the architecture, the terrace, Monaco’s rock, and all the rest combine to make the pleasing "ensemble." At Biarritz the architecture of its Casino and the great hotels is not of an epoch-making beauty, neither are they so delightfully placed. It is the surrounding stage setting that is so lovely. Here the jagged shore line, the blue waves, the ample horizon seaward, are what make it all so charming. -from "Biarritz," by Francis Miltoun From the era from a trip to the Cont

Author: Francis W. Halsey
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: sicily, greece, part, italy, authors, europe, famous, seeing
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1596058072
ISBN-13: 9781596058071

[A]s the cemetery is small, and it is a precious privilege to sleep in holy ground, the brotherhood are immemorially accustomed, when one of their number dies, to take the longest-buried skeleton out of the oldest grave, and lay the new slumberer there instead. Thus, each of the good friars, in his turn, enjoys the luxury of a consecrated bed, attended with the slight drawback, as it were, and make room for another lodger. -from "The Cemetery of the Capuchins," by Nathaniel Hawthorne From the era from a trip to the Continent was rarer but more deeply appreciated comes an enchanting literary tr

Author: Francis W. Halsey
Publisher: Cosimo Classic
Keywords: hungary, switzerland, part, austria, germany, europe, famous, authors, seeing
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 2006-04-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1596058056
ISBN-13: 9781596058057

The train spins along across great plains gilded by the setting sun; soon night comes, and with it, sleep. At stations remote from one another, German voices shout German names; I do not recognize them by the sound, and look for them in vain upon the map. Magnificent great station buildings are shown up by gaslight in the midst of surrounding darkness, then disappear. We pass Hanover and Minden; the train keeps on its way; and morning dawns. -from "A Look at the German Capital," by Theophile Gautier From the era from a trip to the Continent was rarer but more deeply appreciated comes an enchan