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4 books about Madeira tagged “natural history”.
A classic early 19th-century account of Madeira and Porto Santo by the explorer T. E. Bowdich, with zoological and botanical material added by his wife Sarah Bowdich Lee. Available as a modern facsimile reprint.
Naturalist James Yate Johnson’s handbook to Madeira for invalids and visitors, with substantial chapters on the island’s fauna, flora, geology and meteorology.
Thomas Vernon Wollaston’s pioneering account of the insects of the Madeiran archipelago — a foundational work of island natural history based on his 1840s fieldwork.
Wollaston’s survey of the land and freshwater molluscs of the Atlantic islands including Madeira — a standard 19th-century reference in island malacology.
