Download or read book The Physical Geography of the West Indies written by Felix Leopold Oswald and published by LM Publishers. This book was released on 2019-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with the Physical Geography of the West Indies. (With illustrations). “The study of the geographical distribution of plants and animals has revealed facts almost as enigmatical as the origin of life itself.... The first Spanish explorers of the Antilles were, in fact, so amazed at the apparently complete absence of quadrupeds that their only explanation was a conjecture that the beasts of the forest must have been exterminated by order of some native potentate, perhaps the great Kubla Khan, whose possessions they supposed to extend eastward from Lake Aral to the Atlantic. The chronicle of Diego Columbus says positively that San Domingo and San Juan Bautista (Porto Rico) were void of mammals, but afterward modifies that statement by mentioning a species of rodent, the hutia, or bush rat, that annoyed the colonists of Fort Isabel, and caused them to make an appropriation for importing a cargo of cats.Bush rats and moles were, up to the end of the sixteenth century, the only known indigenous quadrupeds of the entire West Indian archipelago, for the "Carib dogs," which Valverde saw in Jamaica, were believed to have been brought from the mainland by a horde of man-hunting savages.But natural history has kept step with the advance of other sciences, and the list of undoubtedly aboriginal mammals on the four main islands of the Antilles is now known to comprise more than twenty species. That at least fifteen of them escaped the attention of the Spanish Creoles is as strange as the fact that the Castilian cattle barons of Upper California did not suspect the existence of precious metals, though nearly the whole bonanza region of the San Joaquin Valley had been settled before the beginning of the seventeenth century. But the conquerors of the Philippines even overlooked a variety of elephants that roams the coast jungles of Mindanao.Eight species of those West Indian incognito mammals, it is true, are creatures of a kind which the Spanish zoölogists of Valverde's time would probably have classed with birds—bats, namely, including the curious Vespertilio molossus, or mastiff bat, and several varieties of the owl-faced Chilonycteris, that takes wing in the gloom preceding a thunderstorm, as well as in the morning and evening light, and flits up and down the coast rivers with screams that can be heard as plainly as the screech of a paroquet...”

Download or read book An Outline of the Geography of the West Indies written by J. E. Blackman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book History of West Indies written by Edith Blake and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Had those islands any aborigines when discovered by Europeans? If there were natives, do any of them remain? The West Indies, or Antilles, consist of many hundreds, or even-reckoning keys or very small islands-several thousand islands varying in area from those which, like Cuba and Jamaica, number their square acres by the million, to the tiny key of half an acre or less. The greater number of these-indeed, all capable of supporting a population, with the exception of Barbados- contained inhabitants when first discovered. Barbados, though containing numerous evidences of former occupation, was uninhabited when taken possession of by its first European settlers, the English...

Download or read book The Geography History and Statistics of America and the West Indies Exhibiting a Correct Account of the Discovery Settlement and Progress of the Various Kingdoms States and Provinces of the Western Hemisphere to the Year 1822 By H C Carey and J Lea Philadelphia With Additions Relative to the New States of South America written by Henry Charles Carey and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book An Outline of the Geography of the West Indies written by J. E. Blackman and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book CARIBBEAN LANDS A GEOGRAPHY OF THE WEST INDIES written by John Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Geography of America and the West Indies written by George Long (M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.) and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Geography of America and the West Indies Edited by George Long written by George Long and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book America and the West Indies written by George Long and published by London : C. Knight. This book was released on 1845 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Physical Geography of the Sea written by Matthew Fontaine Maury and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Physical Geography of the Sea Etc written by Matthew Fontaine MAURY (the Elder.) and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The West Indies written by Amos Kidder Fiske and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The West Indies written by David Watts and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For review see: Roderick A. McDonald, in The economic historic review : a journal of economic and social history, vol. 44, no. 4 (November 1991); p. 765-766.

Download or read book Elements of mathematical and physical geography written by James Donald (F.R.G.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Caribbean Lands A Geography of the West Indies Cartography by John Callow With Illustrations written by John Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The West Indies written by Amos Kidder Fiske and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a detailed and comprehensive history of the West Indies, from pre-Columbian times to the present day. The author traces the region's political, economic, and cultural development, and provides a wealth of information about its natural resources, geography, and ecology. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Caribbean Geography written by Thomas A. Rumney and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012-05-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands and seascapes gracing the Caribbean Sea have long been areas of interest and research for geographers and other scholars from around the world. The lands and waters of the Caribbean region have stimulated an extensive body of research and writing across the many fields of geography. This book collects, organizes, and presents as many of these scholarly publications as possible to aid in the teaching, study, and further scholarship of the geography of this area. Chapters are organized into the following categories: general works, cultural and social geography, economic geography, historical geography, physical geography, political geography, and urban geography. The types of publications noted include atlases, books, book chapters, articles, master’s theses, and doctoral dissertations. Entries in each chapter are arranged alphabetically by author’s last name. Where there is more than one publication per author, the earliest is listed first, and the rest are listed chronologically after the first entry. This volume is a convenient and useful collection of existing references on the geography of the Caribbean region that can assist teachers and students in both the study and research of the area.