Land and Sea
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
ISBN-10
1108073425
ISBN-13
9781108073424
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 28th, 2014
Print length
442 Pages
Weight
560 grams
Dimensions
21.60 x 14.00 x 2.50 cms
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Philip Henry Gosse (1810–88), a fundamentalist Christian who struggled with many aspects of contemporary science, was famous as a natural historian, his books prompting Victorian crazes for collecting ferns and seashore life. This 1865 work offers essays on aspects of the geography and natural history of the West Country.
Philip Henry Gosse (1810–88) is best remembered today for the portrait given by his son Edmund in his autobiographical Father and Son. In his own day, he was famous as a natural historian, and his books were extremely popular. (His Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica is also reissued in this series.) In 1857, Gosse moved from London to Devon, where he spent the rest of his life. This 1865 book offers essays about various aspects of the geography and natural history of the West Country. There are some digressions (one chapter is on the woods of Jamaica), and reminders of the two great Victorian crazes, for ferns and for seashore life, which Gosse's writings partly instigated. In his final essay, on Dartmoor, is an appendix which argues that Britain is the biblical Tarshish - a reminder that Gosse was also a fundamentalist Christian who struggled with many aspects of contemporary science.
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