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Jungle night

Chapter 6: ATLANTIC TEXTS
By William Beebe
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A series of lyrical field essays that record moonlit journeys into tropical forests, blending precise natural-history observation with personal reflection. The narrator tracks nocturnal animals, describes behaviors and sounds, and notes the altered appearance of the jungle under moonlight; encounters with a skillful indigenous hunter provide human context and ethical observation of local life. Vivid sensory detail and modest scientific explanation portray species, habitat interactions, and the quiet drama of night, while reflections on companionship, adaptation, and the transformative power of light shape the narrative voice.

ATLANTIC TEXTS

TEXTBOOKS IN LIBRARY FORM

ATLANTIC CLASSICS, First Series $1.50
ATLANTIC CLASSICS, Second Series 1.50
Both volumes collected and edited by Ellery Sedgwick, Editor of the Atlantic Monthly.  
For classes in American literature.  
ESSAYS AND ESSAY-WRITING 1.25
Collected and edited by William M. Tanner, University of Texas.  
For literature and composition classes.  
ATLANTIC NARRATIVES, First Series 1.25
For college use in classes studying the short story.  
ATLANTIC NARRATIVES, Second Series 1.25
For secondary schools.  
Both volumes collected and edited by Charles Swain Thomas, Editorial department of the Atlantic Monthly Press, and Lecturer at Harvard University.  
ATLANTIC PROSE AND POETRY 1.00
Collected and edited by Charles Swain Thomas and Harry G. Paul of the University of Illinois.  
A literary reader for upper grammar grades and junior high schools.  
THE PROFESSION OF JOURNALISM 1.25
Collected and edited by Willard G. Bleyer, University of Wisconsin.  
For college use.  
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY AND ITS MAKERS 1.00
By M. A. DeWolfe Howe, Editorial department of the Atlantic Monthly Press.  
Biographical and literary matter for the English class.  
WRITING THROUGH READING .90
By Robert M. Gay, Simmons College.  
A short course in composition for colleges and normal schools.  
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: The Principle and the Practice 2.50
Edited by Stephen P. Duggan, College of the City of New York.  
A basic text on international relations.  
THE LIGHT: An Educational Pageant .65
By Catherine T. Bryce, Yale University.  
Especially suitable for public presentation at Teachers’ Conventions.  
PATRONS OF DEMOCRACY .80
By Dallas Lore Sharp, Boston University.  
For classes interested in discussing democracy in our public schools.  
AMERICANS BY ADOPTION 1.50
By Joseph Husband.  
For Americanization courses.  
THE VOICE OF SCIENCE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE 2.00
Collected and edited by Robert E. Rogers and Henry G. Pearson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  

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