Books and naturalists
"Though met with mixed responses from scientists and naturalists across the centuries, believing the world around them was to be purely 'known' and not read, books on natural history have also come to incite passion and excitement in so many of their readers, and illustrations as much as text have helped to propel this. To have the world around us neatly categorized and named has, to an extent, made it a less daunting place in which to live. In the latest book from the highly acclaimed New Natu…
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- Full title :Books and naturalists / David Elliston Allen.
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"Though met with mixed responses from scientists and naturalists across the centuries, believing the world around them was to be purely 'known' and not read, books on natural history have also come to incite passion and excitement in so many of their readers, and illustrations as much as text have helped to propel this. To have the world around us neatly categorized and named has, to an extent, made it a less daunting place in which to live. In the latest book from the highly acclaimed New Naturalist series, Dr. David Allen explores the world of nature publishing through the course of history, from its very early days in the dawn of publishing, through various significant new discoveries and into the birth of the New Naturalist series itself, highlighting the extraordinary personal stories behind many seminal works."--Publisher's description.
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- Publication Date:2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Collins
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
Notes
Series numbering from dust jacket.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiv, 495 pages : : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, map ; : 23 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780007300174, 0007300174, 9780007240845, 0007240848
- oclc:ocn434561744
- LC Classification:QH13.45
- Dewey Decimal:508.0941
Table of Contents
Books and naturalists -- The earliest authors -- Disguise discarded -- Intermission -- The Linnaean spring -- Zoology catches up -- The Linnaean autumn -- Self-help -- The popularisation explosion -- The nineteenth-century publishers -- Contingent damage -- Victorian high tide -- Wider and deeper still -- Local floras and faunas -- Shifting ground -- A jubilee of monographs -- Edwardian makeover -- Wanderings -- Direction recovered -- New naturalists -- Field guides aplenty -- New uncertainties.
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