Author: Charles John Cornish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The Naturalist on the Thames
Author: Charles John Cornish
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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The Naturalist
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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The Naturalist's Cabinet
Author: Thomas Smith
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Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Sweet Thames Run Softly
Author: Robert Gibbings
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213068
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.
Publisher: Little Toller Books
ISBN: 9781908213068
Category : Boats and boating
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A charming account of an artist-naturalist adrift in a home-made punt on the eve of the Second World War.
The Field Naturalist's Quarterly
Author: Gerald Rowley Leighton
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Naturalists in Paradise
Author: John Hemming
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500252106
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The thrilling stories of the three pioneering English naturalists’ explorations and discoveries in the world’s richest ecosystem One hundred and fifty years ago, the young naturalists Alfred Wallace, Henry Walter Bates, and Richard Spruce were on a journey. Their destination, Amazonia—the world’s largest tropical forest with the greatest river system and richest ecosystem—was then an almost-undiscovered environment to Western explorers and scientists. In Naturalists in Paradise, Amazon expert John Hemming weaves the riveting stories of these three men’s experiences in the Amazon and assesses their valuable research that drastically changed our conception of the natural world. Each of the three naturalists is famous for a particular discovery: Wallace is credited, along with Charles Darwin, for developing the theory of evolution; Bates uncovered the phenomenon of protective mimicry among insects; and Spruce transported the quinine-bearing Cinchona tree to India, saving countless lives from malaria. Drawing on the letters and books of the three naturalists, Hemming reaches beyond the well-known narratives, offering unrivaled insight into the often lawless frontier life in South America as seen through the lives of the great pioneers of modern disciplines: anthropology, tribal linguistics, archaeology, and every branch of natural science.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0500252106
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The thrilling stories of the three pioneering English naturalists’ explorations and discoveries in the world’s richest ecosystem One hundred and fifty years ago, the young naturalists Alfred Wallace, Henry Walter Bates, and Richard Spruce were on a journey. Their destination, Amazonia—the world’s largest tropical forest with the greatest river system and richest ecosystem—was then an almost-undiscovered environment to Western explorers and scientists. In Naturalists in Paradise, Amazon expert John Hemming weaves the riveting stories of these three men’s experiences in the Amazon and assesses their valuable research that drastically changed our conception of the natural world. Each of the three naturalists is famous for a particular discovery: Wallace is credited, along with Charles Darwin, for developing the theory of evolution; Bates uncovered the phenomenon of protective mimicry among insects; and Spruce transported the quinine-bearing Cinchona tree to India, saving countless lives from malaria. Drawing on the letters and books of the three naturalists, Hemming reaches beyond the well-known narratives, offering unrivaled insight into the often lawless frontier life in South America as seen through the lives of the great pioneers of modern disciplines: anthropology, tribal linguistics, archaeology, and every branch of natural science.
The Great Naturalists
Author: Robert Huxley
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500774862
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and von Humboldt made perilous journeys to collect and record it. Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria with a homemade microscope and James Hutton revealed the immense age of the Earth. Mary Anning hunted fossils; others insects, birds and plants. Georges Cuvier pondered extinction, and Charles Darwin proclaimed the origin of species. With their radical thinking and commitment to close observation, these pioneers laid foundations for the specialist scientists of today. Here thirty-nine of them are brought vividly to life by an array of experts, with illustrations from the unmatched archive of the Natural History Museum, London.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 0500774862
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
From Classical times to the 19th century, the great quest to discover and define the intoxicating diversity of the natural world attracted a host of intrepid thinkers and explorers. Aristotle and Linnaeus set out to classify nature; Joseph Banks and von Humboldt made perilous journeys to collect and record it. Antony van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria with a homemade microscope and James Hutton revealed the immense age of the Earth. Mary Anning hunted fossils; others insects, birds and plants. Georges Cuvier pondered extinction, and Charles Darwin proclaimed the origin of species. With their radical thinking and commitment to close observation, these pioneers laid foundations for the specialist scientists of today. Here thirty-nine of them are brought vividly to life by an array of experts, with illustrations from the unmatched archive of the Natural History Museum, London.
Essex Naturalist
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Category : Biology
Languages : en
Pages : 782
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Beyond Impressionism
Author: Gabriel P. Weisberg
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The triumph of the forward-looking Impressionists over the deadwood of the French Academy is a familiar story to art lovers. Now this challenging book adds a new dimension to that period, showing that at the same time the Naturalists were shaping a different view of painting. Weisberg reveals that the Naturalists went beyond Impressionism in both technique and subject matter. 307 illustrations, 86 in full color.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
The triumph of the forward-looking Impressionists over the deadwood of the French Academy is a familiar story to art lovers. Now this challenging book adds a new dimension to that period, showing that at the same time the Naturalists were shaping a different view of painting. Weisberg reveals that the Naturalists went beyond Impressionism in both technique and subject matter. 307 illustrations, 86 in full color.
Storied Ground
Author: Paul Readman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424732
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
The relationship between landscape and identity is explored to reveal how Englishness encompasses the urban and rural, and the north and south.