THE FIELD-BOOK OF A JUNGLE-WALLAH : BEING A DESCRIPTION OF SHORE, RIVER & FOREST LIFE IN SARAWAK

Hose, Charles

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Verlag: Oxford University Press, Singapore ; New York, 1985

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Book Condition: Near Fine, apart from some age related tanning to inside boards. Text and interior is clean, clear and bright. Tightly bound. Singapore 1991. 224 pp., 130 x 195 mm, pbk. Weight 0.300 Kgs. Hose, Charles; Field-Book of A Jungle-Wallah, The\n: Shore, River and Forest Life in Sarawak. Third Impression 1991. A description of shore, river, and forest life in Sarawak, by a distinguished civil servant in the Charles Brooke regime. Charles Hose FRGS. FLS (12 October 1863 - 14 November 1929) was a British colonial administrator, zoologist and ethnologist. He was born in Hertfordshire, England, and was educated at Felsted in Essex. Admitted to Clare College, Cambridge in 1882, he almost immediately migrated to Jesus College, and later left Cambridge without taking a degree. He was offered an administrative cadetship in Sarawak by the second Rajah, Sir Charles Brooke, which he took up in 1884. His large collection of ethnographic objects from Borneo was purchased by the British Museum in 1905. \nSeveral species were named to commemorate his work as a zoologist and slaughterer of wild animals: Hose's Frog, Odorrana hosii found in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Hose's Tree Frog, Philautus hosii endemic to Borneo: Indonesia and Malaysia prob. Brunei. Hose's Toad, Pedostibes hosii, toad in Southeast Asia: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Hose's Broadbill, Calyptomena hosii endemic to Borneo. Black Oriole, Oriolus hosii endemic to Borneo. Hose's Shrew or Bornean Pygmy Shrew, Suncus hosei endemic to Malaysia. Hose's Pygmy Flying Squirrel, Petaurillus hosei endemic to Malaysia. Four-striped Ground Squirrel, Lariscus hosei endemic to Borneo. Hose's Palm Civet, Diplogale hosei endemic to Borneo: East Malaysia and Brunei. Fraser?s Dolphin, Lagenodelphis hosei. Hose?s Leaf Monkey, Presbytis hosei endemic to Borneo. Places named after Hose: Hose Mountains on Borneo. Hose died in 1929, apparently never regretting how many innocent creatures he had murdered to fuel his obsession with cataloguing Nature's bounty.…

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Titel
THE FIELD-BOOK OF A JUNGLE-WALLAH : BEING A DESCRIPTION OF SHORE, RIVER & FOREST LIFE IN SARAWAK
Autor
Hose, Charles
Verlag
Oxford University Press, Singapore ; New York
Erscheinungsjahr
1985
Zustand
Near Fine
Einband
Soft cover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0195826353
ISBN-13
9780195826357
Auflage
Revised Edition.
Abmessungen
20 cm. 7.8 ounces

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