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Languages : en
Pages : 438
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A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, &c. of the Last of Those Islands; to which is Prefix'd an Introduction, Wherein is an Account of the Inhabitants, Air, Waters, Diseases, Trade, &c of that Place, with Some Relations Concerning the Neighbouring Continent, and Islands of America. Illustrated with the Figures of the Things Describ'd, which Have Not Been Heretofore Engraved; in Large Copper-plates as Big as the Life. By Hans Sloane ... In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.]
![A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica, with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, &c. of the Last of Those Islands; to which is Prefix'd an Introduction, Wherein is an Account of the Inhabitants, Air, Waters, Diseases, Trade, &c of that Place, with Some Relations Concerning the Neighbouring Continent, and Islands of America. Illustrated with the Figures of the Things Describ'd, which Have Not Been Heretofore Engraved; in Large Copper-plates as Big as the Life. By Hans Sloane ... In Two Volumes. Vol. 1. [-2.] PDF](https://books.google.com/books/content/images/frontcover/rW9gjFcjhv4C?fife=w80-h100)
Author: A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History of the Herbs, and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles &c. of the Last of Those Islands
Author: Hans SloaneA Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History of the Herbs and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles, Etc., of the Last of Those Islands... Illustrated with the Figures of the Things Describd... by Hans Sloane...
Author: Hans SloaneA Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, St Christophers and Jamaica with the Natural History of the Herbs, and Trees, Four-footed Beasts, Fishes, Birds, Insects, Reptiles &c. of the Last of Those Islands
Author: Hans SloaneA Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica
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Category : Botanical illustration
Languages : en
Pages : 901
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A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, Nieves, S. Christophers and Jamaica
Author: Sir Hans SloanePublisher:
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Category : Botanical illustration
Languages : en
Pages : 922
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Menagerie
Author: Caroline GrigsonPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191024120
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Menagerie is the story of the panoply of exotic animals that were brought into Britain from time immemorial until the foundation of the London Zoo -- a tale replete with the extravagant, the eccentric, and -- on occasion -- the downright bizarre. From Henry III's elephant at the Tower, to George IV's love affair with Britain's first giraffe and Lady Castlereagh's recalcitrant ostriches, Caroline Grigson's tour through the centuries amounts to the first detailed history of exotic animals in Britain. On the way we encounter a host of fascinating and outlandish creatures, including the first peacocks and popinjays, Thomas More's monkey, James I's cassowaries in St James's Park, and Lord Clive's zebra -- which refused to mate with a donkey, until the donkey was painted with stripes. But this is not just the story of the animals themselves. It also the story of all those who came into contact with them: the people who owned them, the merchants who bought and sold them, the seamen who carried them to our shores, the naturalists who wrote about them, the artists who painted them, the itinerant showmen who worked with them, the collectors who collected them. And last but not least, it is about all those who simply came to see and wonder at them, from kings, queens, and nobles to ordinary men, women, and children, often impelled by no more than simple curiosity and a craving for novelty.
Literary Histories of the Early Anglophone Caribbean
Author: Nicole N. AljoePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319715925
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
The Caribbean has traditionally been understood as a region that did not develop a significant ‘native’ literary culture until the postcolonial period. Indeed, most literary histories of the Caribbean begin with the texts associated with the independence movements of the early twentieth century. However, as recent research has shown, although the printing press did not arrive in the Caribbean until 1718, the roots of Caribbean literary history predate its arrival. This collection contributes to this research by filling a significant gap in literary and historical knowledge with the first collection of essays specifically focused on the literatures of the early Caribbean before 1850.
Difference and Disease
Author: Suman SethPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Suman Seth reveals how histories of medicine, empire, race and slavery intertwined in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-century Britain
Author: Bennett ZonPublisher: University Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580462594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Explores the influence of anthropological theories, travel literature, psychology, and other intellectual trends on the perception of non-Western music and elucidates the roots of today's field of ethnomusicology.