Author: Asa Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Letters of Asa Gray
Author: Asa Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Letters of Asa Gray
Author: Asa Gray
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ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Letters of Asa Gray
Author: Mrs. Jane Loring Gray
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Natural Selection Not Inconsistent with Natural Theology
Author: Asa Gray
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Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Darwiniana
Author: Asa Gray
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Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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Letters of Note
Author: Shaun Usher
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838856161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1838856161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Letters of Note, the book based on the beloved website of the same name, became an instant classic on publication in 2013, selling hundreds of thousands of copies. This new edition sees the collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters updated with fourteen riveting new missives and a new introduction from curator Shaun Usher. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter, Letters of Note is a celebration of the power of written correspondence which captures the humour, seriousness, sadness and brilliance that make up all of our lives.
André Michaux in North America
Author: André Michaux
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 081732030X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists Known to today’s biologists primarily as the “Michx.” at the end of more than 700 plant names, André Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des chênes de l’Amérique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the first account of all plants known in eastern North America. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, André Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785–1797 is the first complete English edition of Michaux’s American journals. This copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the many hardships—debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild animals, even shipwreck—that Michaux endured on the North American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of Madagascar.
Publisher: University Alabama Press
ISBN: 081732030X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 609
Book Description
Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists Known to today’s biologists primarily as the “Michx.” at the end of more than 700 plant names, André Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des chênes de l’Amérique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the first account of all plants known in eastern North America. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, André Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785–1797 is the first complete English edition of Michaux’s American journals. This copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the many hardships—debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild animals, even shipwreck—that Michaux endured on the North American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of Madagascar.
Letters of Asa Gray
Author: Asa Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botanists
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Origins
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898625
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
This special anniversary edition of Burkhardt's bestselling work, "Origins: Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859," now includes previously unpublished letters.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521898625
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
This special anniversary edition of Burkhardt's bestselling work, "Origins: Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859," now includes previously unpublished letters.
More Letters of Charles Darwin
Author: Charles Darwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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