Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870

by Mary Ellen Bellanca

Book Overview

Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. As prescientific worldviews... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813926130
• ISBN13: 9780813926131
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"