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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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The Annals and Magazine of Natural History
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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A Natural History of St. Kilda
Author: John A. Love
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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This is an account of what scientists and naturalists who visited the island between 1697 and 1938 experienced, not only the people's way of life but also the wildlife around them, and the ways in which it was important to the islanders' survival. Much of the information was researched from little-known private diaries, files, reports and scientific journals.
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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This is an account of what scientists and naturalists who visited the island between 1697 and 1938 experienced, not only the people's way of life but also the wildlife around them, and the ways in which it was important to the islanders' survival. Much of the information was researched from little-known private diaries, files, reports and scientific journals.
Natural History
Author: Ross J. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317089790
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
The concept of ’natural heritage’ has become increasingly significant with the threat of dwindling resources, environmental degradation and climatic change. As humanity’s impact on the condition of life on earth has become more prominent, a discernible shift in the relationship between western society and the environment has taken place. This is reflective of wider historical processes which reveal a constantly changing association between humanity’s definition and perception of what ’nature’ constitutes or what can be defined as ’natural’. From the ornate collections of specimens which formed the basis of a distinct concept of ’nature’ emerging during the Enlightenment, this definition and the wider relationship between humanity and natural history have reflected issues of identity, place and politics in the modern era. This book examines this process and focuses on the ideas, values and agendas that have defined the representation and reception of the history of the natural world, including geology and palaeontology, within contemporary society, addressing how the heritage of natural history, whether through museums, parks, tourist sites or popular culture is used to shape social, political, cultural and moral identities. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners within heritage studies, public history, ecology, environmental studies and geography.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317089790
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
The concept of ’natural heritage’ has become increasingly significant with the threat of dwindling resources, environmental degradation and climatic change. As humanity’s impact on the condition of life on earth has become more prominent, a discernible shift in the relationship between western society and the environment has taken place. This is reflective of wider historical processes which reveal a constantly changing association between humanity’s definition and perception of what ’nature’ constitutes or what can be defined as ’natural’. From the ornate collections of specimens which formed the basis of a distinct concept of ’nature’ emerging during the Enlightenment, this definition and the wider relationship between humanity and natural history have reflected issues of identity, place and politics in the modern era. This book examines this process and focuses on the ideas, values and agendas that have defined the representation and reception of the history of the natural world, including geology and palaeontology, within contemporary society, addressing how the heritage of natural history, whether through museums, parks, tourist sites or popular culture is used to shape social, political, cultural and moral identities. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners within heritage studies, public history, ecology, environmental studies and geography.
An Essay Towards a Natural History of the County of Dublin,
Author: John Rutty
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
Author: Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 1104
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Child of St Kilda
Author: Beth Waters
Publisher: Child's Play Library
ISBN: 9781786281876
Category : Saint Kilda (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever. People had lived on these islands for over 4000 years, developing a thriving, tightly-knit society. Why and how did this ancient way of life suddenly cease in 1930?
Publisher: Child's Play Library
ISBN: 9781786281876
Category : Saint Kilda (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Norman John Gillies was one of the last children ever born on St Kilda, five years before the whole population was evacuated forever. People had lived on these islands for over 4000 years, developing a thriving, tightly-knit society. Why and how did this ancient way of life suddenly cease in 1930?
The Life and Death of St. Kilda
Author: Tom Steel
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007438001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007438001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
The extraordinary story of the UK's most gruelling and spectacularly beautiful islands. Tom Steel's acclaimed portrait of the St Kildan's lives is now updated in this reissued edition.
St Kilda
Author: Roger Hutchinson
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857908316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
St Kilda is the most romantic and most romanticised group of islands in Europe. Soaring out of the North Atlantic Ocean like Atlantis come back to life, the islands have captured the imagination of the outside world for hundreds of years. Their inhabitants, Scottish Gaels who lived off the land, the sea and by birdcatching on high and precipitous cliffs, were long considered to be the Noble Savages of the British Isles, living in a state of natural grace. St Kilda: A People's History explores and portrays the life of the St Kildans from the Stone Age to 1930, when the remaining 36 islanderswere evacuated to the Scottish mainland. Bestselling author Roger Hutchinson digs deep into the archives to paint a vivid picture of the life and death, work and play of a small, proud and self-sufficient people in the first modern book to chart the history of the most remote islands in Britain.
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857908316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
St Kilda is the most romantic and most romanticised group of islands in Europe. Soaring out of the North Atlantic Ocean like Atlantis come back to life, the islands have captured the imagination of the outside world for hundreds of years. Their inhabitants, Scottish Gaels who lived off the land, the sea and by birdcatching on high and precipitous cliffs, were long considered to be the Noble Savages of the British Isles, living in a state of natural grace. St Kilda: A People's History explores and portrays the life of the St Kildans from the Stone Age to 1930, when the remaining 36 islanderswere evacuated to the Scottish mainland. Bestselling author Roger Hutchinson digs deep into the archives to paint a vivid picture of the life and death, work and play of a small, proud and self-sufficient people in the first modern book to chart the history of the most remote islands in Britain.
The annals and magazine of natural history, zoology, botany and geology
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Report for 1879-1947
Author: Botanical Society of the British Isles
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
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