Author: John CassinPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 298
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Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America ... 1853 to 1855
Illustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British, and Russian America
Author: John CassinIllustrations of the Birds of California, Texas, Oregon, British and Russian America, Intended to Contain Descriptions and Figures of All North American Birds Not Given by Former American Authors, And: A General Synopsis of North American Ornithology
Author: John CassinAlexander Wilson
Author: Edward H. BurttPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 1611487951
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery of a gigantic number of bird species. It is at this intersection between abundant modern science and ambitious Enlightenment ideology that this remarkable collection of five essays on Alexander Wilson (1766-1813), the father of American ornithology, makes its original and delightful contribution. Alexander Wilson: Enlightened Naturalist recovers Wilson’s literary, artistic and musical pursuits, and the cultural contexts of his life in the Scotland of Robert Burns. It also explores Wilson’s scientific and philosophic contribution to American ornithology in American Ornithology; or The Natural History of the Birds of theUnited States, published in Philadelphia between 1808 and 1814. Alexander Wilson is richly illustrated, links to a web site of audio readings of Wilson’s Scots poems– links that are embedded in the ebook–and includes a tribute to the late Edward H. Burtt, Jr., who died shortly before publication.
Catalogue of the Library of Robert L. Stuart
Author: Robert Leighton StuartPublisher:
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Bibliographical Guide to American Literature ...
Author: Nicolas TrübnerTrübner's Bibliographical Guide to American Literature
Author: Nicolas TrübnerPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 738
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Birds of Oregon
Author: Ira Noel GabrielsonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557686504
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 686
Book Description
More of a Man
Author: Andrew McIlwraithPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442611642
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man. Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith's life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century.
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