# Jungle days

Author: Beebe, William, 1877-1962

Genre: Animals -- Guyana

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77723

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Jungle+days+Beebe&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

A volcano in eruption and a jungle monkey--nothing can ever quite prepare our minds for the first sight of these. Neither the crude wood-cut of Vesuvius in our old school geography, nor the latest colored moving picture of Kilauea, adumbrates the awe of the silent, ascending line of smoke, or the nocturnal glow of fires, old as earth itself is old. Your canoe slips through the reflection of everhanging jungle, and you suddenly spy a little face peering out from the fronds,--a face wistful, serious, grave as with the weight of planetary responsibilities; and so human that you feel that somewhere in its past it too could tell of an Eden tragedy. If not an apple, it must at least have nibble...

## Chapters

- [PART II--THEORY](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jungle-days-77723/chapters/2/index.md)
- [PART I--FACT](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/jungle-days-77723/chapters/1/index.md)