Author: Geoffrey Douglas Hale CarpenterPublisher: London : T.F. Unwin
ISBN:
Category : African trypanosomiasis
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A Naturalist on Lake Victoria
Author: Geoffrey Douglas Hale CarpenterPublisher: London : T.F. Unwin
ISBN:
Category : African trypanosomiasis
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A Naturalist on Lake Victoria
Author: G. D. Hale CarpenterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781332304530
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Excerpt from A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping, Sickness and the Tse-Tse Fly At the commencement of 1910, when studying Tropical Medicine at the London School, I was asked if I would undertake an investigation into the bionomics of the Tse-tse fly, Glossina palpalis, in Uganda, as the Tropical Diseases Committee of the Royal Society had come to the conclusion that a greater knowledge of this fly was essential for the successful dealing with the disease. I left England in June 1910, and during the second half of this year and beginning of 1911 worked at Jinja, on the north shore of the Victoria Nyanja, where the Nile takes origin, and endeavoured to familiarize myself with the novel surroundings and with the fly. It soon appeared that residence on the completely depopulated islands known as the Sesse Isles, in the north-west part of the lake, would afford ideal conditions for studying Glossina unaltered by the presence of mankind and his surroundings; accordingly, in February 1911, I went to Nsadzi Isle, which, lying south of Entebbe and within two or three hours of it by canoe, had been recommended by the P.M.O. as suitable for a beginning. This island, however, did not furnish all the conditions required for the investigations, and camp was moved, after a fortnight, to the large Island of Damba to the east and on the Equator, where the rest of the year was spent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
A Naturalist on Lake Victoria
Author: G D Hale (Geoffrey Douglas CarpenterPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781355628026
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
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A Naturalist on Lake Victoria: With an Account of Sleeping Sickness and the Tse-Tse Fly
Author: Geoffrey Douglas Hale CarpenterPublisher:
ISBN: 9781375623551
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1194
Book Description
Autobiography of a Naturalist and Environmentalist
Author: R. B. EltringhamPublisher: Author House
ISBN: 1467894710
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
This book is an autobiography based on Keiths memoirs which he wrote shortly before he died in 2006 not for publication but for his descendents who might be interested in how he spent his life. He didnt think there would be wide interest but this was far from true and in fact he wrote a most interesting story of his life especially in Africa where he lived with his family for several years Keith was born in 1929 in rural Canada on the prairies of Alberta. He was always passionate about animals and wanted nothing else than a life involving animals and this was something that he achieved. He went to school in Bristol and was educated at Southampton University and Cambridge where he taught for several years. He had a wide knowledge of the animal world and was very knowledgeable about every animal that he met. He acquired an encyclopedic knowledge of the animal world and he wanted nothing more than to learn all he could about animals and to this end as a youngster he established a so called zoo in the garden. Our mother was not too happy when he introduced ants to what he called Ant Island which was an upturned dust bin lid
The Naturalist
Author: A Naturalist in East Africa
Author: Geoffrey Douglas Hale CarpenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, East
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The American Naturalist
Author: A History of the Water Hyacinth in Africa
Author: Jeremiah Mutio KitundaPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 149852463X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Humans and animals are not the only creatures that migrate. Plants also do. This book is a comprehensive and analytical account of the migration of an Old World plant, water hyacinth (also known to botanists as Eichhornia Crassipes) from the Amazon Basin and surrounding areas to Africa through human agency from about 1800 to the present. As an integrative work, which benefits from methodologies and conceptual approaches drawn from limnology, botany, biology, geography, history, ecology and other social sciences and humanities, the book further explores the political, economic, and ecological consequences of the spread of water hyacinth from its native habitat through European botanical gardens to Africa rivers, lakes, dams, and wetlands. In part, as a narrative of Western tinkering with African ecologies gone awry, the study has strong lessons for environmental historians, and social scientists as well as contemporary foundations, aid workers, development experts and African governments. Although it may appear to be a micro-history of a single plant, water hyacinth, it illuminates broader issues in the history of the modern environment in Africa and similar studies worldwide. This study is primarily rooted on the histories of colonialism, bioinvasion, environmental realities and experiences in Africa. The highly visible pathways of hyacinth’s spread across international frontiers along watercourses and communication networks means that not only is this a trans-boundary environmental affair, but one which directly involves bilateral relations between African states.