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FORTUNATE indeed are the children who can claim the author of this book as grandfather and exact from him, as a grandchild's privilege, the charming stories here published. The author has covered a wide range of subjects, from the origins of the American fauna to life in the deep sea, from the American mammoths to the lung fishes of Australia, from giant monster reptiles of Hell Creek to the penguins of the Antarctic Continent, from the forests and jungles of India and Borneo to the mountain crags of the Canadian Rockies and the icebound Polar Seas. In all he is equally happy, interesting and vivid, telling his story in simple compelling language well calculated to stir the imagination of children. It was a happy thought to publish these stories from Nature's book, so simple and so scientifically accurate, and we would wish, with Dr. Hornaday, that all our young people should become acquainted with them. The photographic illustrations are good, and materially help towards a proper understanding of the text.
Tales from Nature's Wonderlands.
Dr.
William T.
Hornaday
By. Pp. xii + 235 + 24 plates. (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924.) 12s. 6d. net.
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Tales from Nature's Wonderlands . Nature 116, 94 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116094c0
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