Land and Sea
Part of Cambridge Library Collection - Zoology
- Author: Philip Henry Gosse
- Date Published: August 2014
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108073424
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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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- Date Published: August 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108073424
- length: 442 pages
- dimensions: 216 x 140 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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