Lives of labour, or, Incidents in the career of eminent naturalists and celebrated travellers
By: by C.L. Brightwell, author of "Annals of industry and genius," "Above rubies," etc
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: T. Nelson and Sons
Published: 1875
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
Subjects: Naturalists; Biography; Juvenile literature; Natural history; Voyages and travels; Flowers; Zoology; Entomology; Botany
Other titles: Incidents in the career of eminent naturalists and celebrated travellers
Notes: Added title page and plates printed in colors.

These articles, with others, were published, 1861, under title: Romantic incidents in the lives of naturalists and celebrated travellers.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Linnæus naming the flowers; title: Sketch of the life and wanderings of Le Vaillant; title: Scenes in the life of Audubon; title: Voyages of François Peron, the zoologist; title: Bayard Taylor in the "Northern land"; title: Adanson's experience among the negroes; title: Labours of Pierre Lyonnet, the entomologist; title: Incidents in the lives of Latreille and d'Isjouvil; title: Incidents in the life of Sonnini; title: A sketch of the life of John Swammerdam; title: Alexander von Humboldt; title: An account of Joseph Dombey, the botanist; title: An incident in the life of Dufresnoy; title: Adventures of a missionary naturalist in the Nicobar Islands; title: Passages in the life of John Sibthorp; title: Pages from the Abbé Domenech's diary; title: Captain Mayne Reid and the quicksand; title: Perilous adventure of Bishop Stanley in an Alpine Pass; title: Visit of M. Huc to the Lamasery of Kounboum.