Natural history

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History & Culture

Excursions in Madeira and Porto Santo

Thomas Edward Bowdich, Sarah Bowdich Lee

English · original edition 1825

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.

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1885 edition cover

History & Culture

Madeira: Its Climate and Scenery

James Yate Johnson

English · original edition 1885

Naturalist James Yate Johnson’s handbook to Madeira for invalids and visitors, with substantial chapters on the island’s fauna, flora, geology and meteorology.

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Nature & Wildlife

Insecta Maderensia

T. Vernon Wollaston

English · original edition 1854

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.

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Nature & Wildlife

Testacea Atlantica

T. Vernon Wollaston

English · original edition 1878

Wollaston’s survey of the land and freshwater molluscs of the Atlantic islands including Madeira — a standard 19th-century reference in island malacology.

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