Author: Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A Journey Through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784
Author: Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784
Author: Barthélemy Faujas de St-FondPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108071570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
A two-volume annotated translation, from 1907, of geologist Faujas de Saint-Fond's 1797 account of a journey to the Hebrides.
A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784
Author: Barthélemy Faujas de St-FondPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108071562
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
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.
Transactions of the Geological Society of Glasgow
Author: Scottish Mountaineering Club Journal
Author: Scottish Mountaineering ClubPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mountaineering
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Includes section "Mountaineering literature."
Bibliotheca Scotia
Author: John Smith & SonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Sir Joseph Banks, Iceland and the North Atlantic 1772-1820 / Journals, Letters and Documents
Author: Anna AgnarsdóttirPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351899953
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 863
Book Description
Sir Joseph Banks was one of the great figures of Georgian England, best known for participating as naturalist in Cook's Endeavour voyage (1768-71), as a patron of science and as the longest-serving President of the Royal Society (1778-1820). This volume brings together all Banks's papers concerning Iceland and the North Atlantic, scattered in repositories in Britain, the United States, Australia and Denmark, and most published here for the first time. A detailed introduction places them in historical context.
Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London
Author: Geological Society of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
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Author: Old and New World Highland Bagpiping
Author: John Graham GibsonPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773522916
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.