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Author : Thomas Pennant
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book A Tour in Scotland, and Voyage to the Hebrides in 1771 written by Thomas Pennant and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847675387
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book Journey to the Hebrides written by Samuel Johnson and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Johnson and James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. Both kept detailed notes of their impressions, and later published separate accounts of their journey. These accounts of their great tour contain some of the finest pieces of travel writing ever produced: they are magnificent historical documents and also portraits of two extraordinary personalities. In the vivid prose of these two famous men of letters, the Highlands and the Western Islands spring to life. The juxtaposition of the two very different accounts creates an unsurpassed portrait of a society which was utterly alien to the Europe of the Enlightenment, and which was straining on the brink of calamitous change. These great masterpieces, entertaining, profound, and marvellously readable are also our last chronicles of a lost age and people.
Author : James Boswell
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Johnson
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Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Johnson's Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland written by Samuel Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108071562
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 written by Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1907 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French geologist Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history, working at the museum of natural history in Paris and as royal commissioner of mines. His enthusiasm for geology took him in 1784 to Britain, to investigate the basalt formations on the Hebridean island of Staffa described by Sir Joseph Banks in Pennant's Tour in Scotland (also reissued in this series). His subsequent account was published in France in 1797, and first translated into English in an abridged form in 1814. This two-volume annotated translation by the well-known geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), prefaced by a short biography of Faujas, was published in 1907. The work is interesting for its social as well as its geological observations. Volume 1 describes life in scientific circles in London, before recounting Faujas' journey to the Highlands of Scotland via Edinburgh and Glasgow.
Author : Phil Dodds
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783277033
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh written by Phil Dodds and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh was an Enlightenment city of regional, national and global influence. But how did the people of Enlightenment Edinburgh understand and order their world? How did they encounter, compare and produce different kinds of spaces, from the urban to the world scale? And how did this city set the universal standards by which other places should be judged and transformed? The Geographies of Enlightenment Edinburgh answers these questions by exploring the thousands of urban plans, county surveys, travel accounts and encyclopaedias that passed through a busy Edinburgh bookshop over four decades. It reveals how these geographical publications were produced and shared, and sheds light on the people who bought and used them - including moral philosophers, silk merchants, school teachers, ship's surgeons and slave owners. This is the story of how specific methods of mapping space came ultimately to predict and organize it, creating a new world in Edinburgh's image. By connecting global processes of knowledge production to intimate accounts of its reception in the city, this book deepens our understanding of the Scottish Enlightenment and the world it made.
Author : James Boswell
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Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides written by James Boswell and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Hislop (publisher)
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Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The book of Scottish anecdote, collected and ed. by A. Hislop written by Alexander Hislop (publisher) and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anne S. Troelstra
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004343784
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives written by Anne S. Troelstra and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Troelstra’s fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences. The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth, providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography. With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra’s work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author’s name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.
Author : Matthew Culley
Publisher : British Academy
ISBN 13 : 9780197262757
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Matthew and George Culley written by Matthew Culley and published by British Academy. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The travel journals and letters of Matthew and George Culley give a fresh and practical picture of agriculture and related conditions in England and Scotland in the late eighteenth century, as seen by two successful farmers who pioneered and spread improved methods and livestock breeds in Northumberland and beyond. These down-to-earth journals are worthy to stand alongside such famous contemporary works as Arthur Young's Tours and John Byng's Diaries.
Author : Robert W. Furness
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408136686
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book The Skuas written by Robert W. Furness and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive monograph of the skua. Many birdwatchers may never have seen a skua; those who have will most probably have vivid memories of one or other species flying powerfully past a headland, or twisting and diving in pursuit of its piratical intentions towards a food-laden seabird - or, perhaps more memorably still, of themselves taking evasive action from the power-diving irate skua whose territory they have unwisely invaded. The full classification of the skuas is still debated, but Dr Furness of the Applied Ornithology Unit, Glasgow University, favours six species, of two genera, with five subspecies, based on current knowledge and his own long and dedicated field studies and research. All of the species are treated comparatively under the following chapter titles: Early history and classification, Distributions and populations, Migration patterns, Reversed sexual size dimorphism, Behaviour, Food and feeding, Kleptoparasitism, Plumage polymorphism, Breeding systems and social organisation, Breeding - laying to hatching, Breeding - hatching to fledging, Population dynamics, Pollutants, Skuas and agriculture, Skuas and conservation. The text is supported by 100 maps and diagrams, 30 photographs and 65 tables. In addition, John Busby contributes 35 evocative drawings which more than embellish this erudite and readable summary of an impressive and diverse group of birds. Jacket paintings by John Busby.
Author : Thomas M. Curley
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820333786
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Samuel Johnson and the Age of Travel written by Thomas M. Curley and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Samuel Johnson's famed ramblings never took him more than five hundred miles from his London home, he was an indefatigable planner of distant voyages. Sharing with his fellow Englishmen that passion for investigating the unknown which had ushered in a momentous geographical revolution, Johnson became the original armchair traveler. His writings proclaim a boundless curiosity about the globe and demonstrate a pervasive preoccupation with travel in every conceivable form. Travel represented more for him than geographical movement; it was a symbol of intellectual growth in his life, his morality, and his society. While Johnson's biographers have all emphasized his fascination with exploration and discovery, no comprehensive study of his complex relationship to the epoch-making geographical advances of his century has heretofore appeared. Thomas Curley's Samuel Johnson and the Age of Travel offers new perspectives on this crucial and surprisingly little-known concern of the man and his age, when English literature brilliantly mirrored the widening frontiers of the British Empire. Drawing extensively on Johnson's entire canon, the works of his contemporaries, and a vast store of much neglected travel books, Curley places Johnson's love of travel and travel literature firmly in its literary and historical contexts. Johnson's career began with the translation of a travel book, yielded numerous articles and essays on the subject in his middle years, and culminated in the publication of his own splendid description of the Highlands in A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Keenly interested in geography, Johnson studied well over two centuries of travel literature to validate his own philosophy of human nature and to promote improved literary standards in what was then the second most popular genre in England. His masterpiece, Rasselas, not only enshrined his recurring vision of man as perpetual explorer but also exemplified that fruitful interaction between travel books and belles-lettres so prevalent throughout Johnson's age. Samuel Johnson and the Age of Travel sheds new light on Johnson's career ambitions, his talents in moral observation and literary creation, and his inquisitive age. Johnson emerges in Curley's study as a truly representative writer completely captivated by the romance of Georgian travel and illustrative of the cultural impact of an expanding world picture upon the minds and letter of eighteenth-century Englishmen.
Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
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Author : William Thomas Lowndes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature Containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books (etc.) written by William Thomas Lowndes and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Erfurt-Cooper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 113654089X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Volcano and Geothermal Tourism written by Patricia Erfurt-Cooper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are over 1300 active volcanoes worldwide and many more dormant or extinct. Some are developed as tourist destinations; others are not, but have great potential. Mount Fuji in Japan attracts over 100 million visitors per year and has immense cultural and spiritual significance, while a number of volcanic areas in national parks, for example Teide in Spain, Yellowstone in the US, Vesuvius in Italy and Tongariro in New Zealand, attract between one to four million tourists each year. In the last decade the designation of nearly 50 geoparks around the world has highlighted their potential for tourism development. This book provides the first global review and assessment of the sustainable use of active and dormant volcanic and geothermal environments for geotourism. The volcano-based tourism sector is further augmented through a closely linked range of geothermal resources and attractions, such as geysers and hot springs, which are discussed in detail throughout individual chapters covering all key volcanic and geothermal regions around the world. It is shown that volcano and geothermal tourism is a subsection of nature-based geotourism and incorporates a variety of other tourism categories such as adventure tourism, extreme tourism, ecotourism, green tourism, educational tourism, and hot spring tourism. This comprehensive book covers the most important issues of this growing tourism sector whilst incorporating relevant global research, making it an essential resource for all in the field. Includes colour plates.
Author : Richard Gough
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Proof sheets of Gough's catalogue of his collection of works on British topography, c.1805. With ms. corrections. Pp. 1-216. With a specimen leaf headed: Saxon books written by Richard Gough and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
