
Land and Sea
Philip Henry Gosse(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 28. August 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
442 pages
978-1-108-07342-4 (ISBN)
Description
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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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
15 Line drawings, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
620 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-07342-4 (9781108073424)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Preface; 1. Lundy Island; 2. Lundy Island (cont.); 3. Lundy Island (cont.); 4. Lundy Island (cont.); 5. A ramble to Brandy Cove; 6. The sea; 7. Highwater mark; 8. Highwater mark (cont.); 9. Babbicombe to Hope's Nose; 10. An hour among the Torbay sponges; 11. Goby hunting; 12. Meadfoot and the starfish; 13. A day in the woods of Jamaica; 14. Ferns; 15. Dartmoor and the Dart; Appendix; Index.