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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Taavi Kalju and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF/Gallica) at http://gallica.bnf.fr)
Release date
2006-10-08
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Public domain in the USA.

1742–1821
An explorer, soldier, and naturalist, he spent about twenty years in South America and turned close observation into books that shaped how Europeans understood the region’s animals, geography, and peoples. His work is still remembered for its careful detail and for anticipating later ideas in natural history.
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