The Naturalist on the River Amazons

by Henry Walter Bates

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"The Naturalist on the River Amazons" by Henry Walter Bates is a travel and natural history book published in 1863. It chronicles Bates's eleven-year expedition through the Amazon basin, where he and Alfred Russel Wallace sought new species and evidence for evolution. Bates collected over 14,000 species, discovering Batesian mimicry through butterfly observations.

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Topics: Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel · Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 -- Travel -- Amazon River Valley · Indians of South America -- Brazil -- Social life and customs · Natural history -- Amazon River Valley