Chapman, Abel

This book essays to epitomise in part the experiences of a lifetime devoted to the direct study of nature in her wilder aspects or, perhaps better expressed, in her wildest forms. The author's main objective has consistently lain in the direction of understanding those reclusive types of creation which most bitterly resent human intrusion on their privacy, or those whose remote and inhospitable haunts are ever the least congenial in our comfort-loving age.