Van de Noordpool naar den Aequator: Blikken in het groote rijk der schepping
- Approximate level
- C1
- Length
- 187,562 words
- Reading time
- 15 h 38 min
- Chapters
- 54
- Language
- Dutch
- On Project Gutenberg since
- 2021
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This book serves as an extensive encyclopedic reference work detailing various animal species and plants across the globe. Written in the nineteenth century, it provides a structured overview of biological classifications. For a learner of Dutch, this text is quite demanding due to its highly specialized scientific vocabulary and the dense, list-like structure of the entries. It lacks narrative flow, focusing instead on precise terminology and taxonomic categorization, which makes it a unique but challenging resource for building technical vocabulary.
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Subjects
- Natural history
- Africa -- Description and travel
- Animal behavior
- Siberia (Russia) -- Description and travel
- Birds -- Lapland
- Tundras
- Ethnology -- Russia (Federation) -- Siberia
- Birds -- Danube River
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