Book of Great Jungles

By Ivan T. Sanderson,

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1965 Ivan Sanderson's Book of Great Jungles.

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1 author picked Book of Great Jungles as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

"When you step into a jungle, unless you have been conditioned against it, you start to breathe, perhaps for the first time in your life.” This classic 1965 book will make you see the jungles as you never have.

When I started writing my adventure series, the setting came naturally to me. It had to be about forests and wildlife. What I needed though, other than my own experience of the wild and imagination, was a lot of information about the actual characteristics of the rainforests. This book bubbled up in my memory from my father’s excellent collection of books…

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