NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE

WHITE, GILBERT

ISBN 10: 1908213256 / ISBN 13: 9781908213259

Edité par Little Toller Books, 2014

N° de réf. du vendeur NWUS9781908213259

Synopsis :

A century before Charles Darwin, decades before the French Revolution, Gilbert White began his lifelong habit of measuring and observing the world around his Hampshire home. Daily rainfall levels and temperature shifts were recorded with home-made instruments.

À propos de l'auteur: Gilbert White was born in his grandfather's vicarage at Selborne, Hampshire, in 1720 and was educated by the Poet Laureate Thomas Wharton before studying at Oriel College, Oxford. He was awarded his deacon's orders in 1746, became fully ordained in 1749, and held several curacies in Hampshire and Wiltshire. After his father died in 1758 he returned to 'The Wakes', his family home in Selborne, where he lived as the curate and began his lifelong habit of recording the natural world, keeping journals, publishing articles for the Royal Society, and writing letters to leading botanists and commentators of his day. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne was first published in 1789 and has been in print ever since.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE
Éditeur : Little Toller Books
Date d'édition : 2014
Reliure : Couverture souple
Illustrateur : Ravilious, Eric
Etat : NEW