A Book of Natural History

Huxley, Darwin, Wallace, Burroughs and Maeterlinck, writing for young readers — thirty-odd essays by the great naturalists on everything from the man-like apes to what worms do.

The Story of a Strange Land

4 pages in this part of A Book of Natural History.

The Story of a Strange Land

T happened a long time ago, it may be fifty thousand years in round numbers, or it may have been twice as many, that a strange thing thing…

The Story of a Strange Land: Colter

So it went on. A great many things happened in other parts of the world. America had been discovered and the colonies were feeling their…

The Story of a Strange Land: Hayden

But, as time passed, other men told what they had seen, until, in 1870, a sort of official survey was made under the lead of Washburne and…

The Story of a Strange Land: Yellowstone

Year after year, as the spawning-time came on, they leaped against the falls of the Gardiner, the Gibbon, and the Firehole Rivers, but only…

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