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Author : William Thomas Lowndes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 970 pages
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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 : 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 : Thomas Pennant
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Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Tour in Scotland 1769 written by Thomas Pennant and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Smethurst
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137030364
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Travel Writing and the Natural World, 1768-1840 written by P. Smethurst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as a starting point the parallel occurrence of Cook's Pacific voyages, the development of natural history, scenic tourism in Britain, and romantic travel in Europe, this book argues that the effect of these practices was the production of nature as an abstract space and that the genre of travel writing had a central role in reproducing it.
Author : Nigel Leask
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192590227
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Stepping Westward written by Nigel Leask and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepping Westward is the first book dedicated to the literature of the Scottish Highland tour of 1720-1830, a major cultural phenomenon that attracted writers and artists like Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, William and Dorothy Wordsworth, Coleridge, Scott, Hogg, Keats, Daniell, and Turner, as well as numerous less celebrated travellers and tourists. Addressing more than a century's worth of literary and visual representations of the Highlands, the book casts new light on how the tour developed a modern literature of place, acting as a catalyst for thinking about improvement, landscape, and the shaping of British, Scottish, and Gaelic identities. It pays attention to the relationship between travellers and the native Gaels, whose world was plunged into crisis by rapid and forced social change. At the book's core lie the best-selling tours of Pennant and Dr Johnson, associated with attempts to 'improve' the intractable Gaidhealtachd in the wake of Culloden. Alongside the Ossian craze and Gilpin's picturesque, their books stimulated a wave of 'home tours' from the 1770s through the romantic period, including writing by women like Sarah Murray and Dorothy Wordsworth. The incidence of published Highland Tours (many lavishly illustrated), peaked around 1800, but as the genre reached exhaustion, the 'romantic Highlands' were reinvented in Scott's poems and novels, coinciding with steam boats and mass tourism, but also rack-renting, sheep clearance, and emigration.
Author : Ian McPhee
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1838591486
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (385 download)
Download or read book The Naked Clansmen on Mull & Iona 1700 - 1860 written by Ian McPhee and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the1700s the life of Scottish clansmen was settled compared to the past. This book describes how Clan families lived simple lives in primitive homes. The Battle of Culloden in 1746 changed Scotland forever. Clansmen were now subject to English justice, prohibited from wearing traditional clothing and carrying weapons. Clan chiefs morphed into hard-nosed landlords and ordinary clansmen faced a different and difficult future, with challenges never experienced by their forefathers. Land reform and the introduction of sheep displaced Gaelic Scots, who had to either live elsewhere, become crofters or emigrate. The development of crofting communities dependant on growing potatoes, and the lives of the people who lived in them, is an essential part of this book. While focused on Mull and Iona, it is a fascinating story about the hardship that tenants experienced throughout Scotland. Disease that decimated potato crops in 1846, caused famine, starvation and great poverty. People lost their livelihoods and were evicted from their homes. Evictions, starvation and government policy led to an upsurge in emigration. Until economic conditions improved during the Crimean War, emigration played a key role in the salvation of a starving population.
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 : James Hunter
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1845968476
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (459 download)
Download or read book Scottish Exodus written by James Hunter and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millions of Scots have left their homeland during the last 400 years. Until now, they have been written about in general terms. Scottish Exodus breaks new ground by taking particular emigrants, drawn from the once-powerful Clan MacLeod, and discovering what happened to them and their families. These people became, among other things, French aristocrats, Polish resistance fighters, Texan ranchers, New Zealand shepherds, Australian goldminers, Aboriginal and African-American activists, Canadian mounted policemen and Confederate rebels. One nineteenth-century MacLeod even went so far as to swap his Gaelic for Arabic and his Christianity for Islam before settling down comfortably in Cairo. This gripping account of Scotland's worldwide diaspora is based on unpublished documents, letters and family histories. It is also based on the author's travels in the company of today's MacLeods - some of them still in Scotland, others further afield. Scottish Exodus is a tale of disastrous voyages, famine and dispossession, the hazards of pioneering on faraway frontiers. But it is also the moving story of how people separated from Scotland by hundreds of years and thousands of miles continue to identify with the small country where their journeyings began.
Author : Mary-Ann Constantine
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1783086548
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Enlightenment Travel and British Identities written by Mary-Ann Constantine and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Weaving together science, history, antiquarianism and art, this stimulating collection of essays amply demonstrates Thomas Pennant’s centrality to a broad range of British Enlightenment debates and discourses, especially those relating to Britain’s so-called “Celtic Fringe”. At the same time, it underscores the epistemological importance of travel and travel writing in the late eighteenth century.’ —Carl Thompson, Senior Lecturer in English, St Mary’s University, UK
Author : Louis Agassiz
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Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bibliographia Zoologiæ Et Geologiæ written by Louis Agassiz and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Agassiz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Bibliographia Zoologiae Et Geologiae written by Louis Agassiz and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Ray Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Agassiz
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book A General Catalogue of All Books, Tracts and Memoirs on Zoology and Geology... written by Louis Agassiz and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis Agassiz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108062539
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Bibliographia Zoologiae Et Geologiae: Volume 4 written by Louis Agassiz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This four-volume catalogue, published 1848-54, provides an extensive list of the zoological and geological literature available at the time.
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 : Christopher Whatley
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 1788852087
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (888 download)
Download or read book Pabay written by Christopher Whatley and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2019-09-18 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An island history almost without comparison . . . one of the finest Highland books of the 21st century” from the renowned Scottish historian (West Highland Free Press). The tiny diamond-shaped island of Pabay lies in Skye’s Inner Sound, just two and a half miles from the bustling village of Broadford. One of five Hebridean islands of that name, it derives from the Norse papa-ey, meaning “island of the priest.” Many visitors since the first holy men built their chapel there have felt that Pabay is a deeply spiritual place, and one of wonder. These include the great 19th-century geologists Hugh Miller and Archibald Geikie, for whom the island’s rocks and fossil-laden shales revealed much about the nature of Creation itself. Len and Margaret Whatley moved to Pabay from the Midlands and lived there from 1950 until 1970. Leaving a landlocked life in Birmingham for the emptiness of an uninhabited island was a brave and challenging move for which nothing could have prepared them. Christopher Whatley, their nephew, was a regular visitor to Pabay whilst they lived there. In this book, based on archival research, oral interviews, memory and personal experience, he explores the history of this tiny island jewel, and the people for whom it has been home, to create a vivid picture of the trials, tribulations and joys of island life. “If the island itself is a diamond, this work is a sparkling gem.” —The Press and Journal “Beautifully written, and presents a richly detailed and fascinating historical narrative . . . It’s as much a testimony to how people have shaped the island and how the island has shaped them.” —Dundee Courier
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.
