Author: William Jardine
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385127025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
The Naturalist Library, Mammalia: Whales
Author: William Jardine
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385127025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385127025
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
The Naturalist's Library, I. Mammalia
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The Naturalist's Library: Hamilton, R. The natural history of the ordi
Author: William Jardine
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
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The Naturalist's Library: Mammalia
Author: Sir William Jardine
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The Naturalist's Library: Hamilton, R. Whales, etc. 1852
Author: William Jardine
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Naturalist's Library. Mammalia. The Natural History of the Amphibious Carnivora
Author: Robert Hamilton
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368753444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368753444
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1839.
The Naturalist's Library
Author: Augustus Addison Gould
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Category : Zoology
Languages : en
Pages : 898
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The Naturalist's Library
Author: Robert Hamilton
Publisher:
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Category : Cetacea
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This volume of The Naturalist's Library provides an overview of the biology and natural history of whales. It includes chapters on the Northern Whale Fishery, stories of whales upsetting boats, whale anatomy and the history of whaling.
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Category : Cetacea
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
This volume of The Naturalist's Library provides an overview of the biology and natural history of whales. It includes chapters on the Northern Whale Fishery, stories of whales upsetting boats, whale anatomy and the history of whaling.
286 Full-Color Animal Illustrations
Author: Sir William Jardine
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155730
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
A spectacular range of wildlife appears in this fine collection of painstakingly accurate 19th-century drawings. Both artists and animal lovers will treasure these splendid illustrations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486155730
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
A spectacular range of wildlife appears in this fine collection of painstakingly accurate 19th-century drawings. Both artists and animal lovers will treasure these splendid illustrations of mammals, birds, fish, and insects.
Ahab's Rolling Sea
Author: Richard J. King
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022651501X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022651501X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.