The Great Naturalists 0500251398, 9780500251393

This title tells the story of the development of ideas about natural history as seen through the lives, observations and

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English Pages 304 Year 2007

The Great Naturalists
0500251398, 9780500251393

This book chronicles the fascinating story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to Cal

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The central importance of naturalistic vision – of a sense of man’s life as part of nature – is emphasized in this study

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Where Peter Newman's best-selling trilogy captured the essence of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as a business

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We humans share Earth with 1.4 million known species and millions more species that are still unrecorded. Yet we know su

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This book chronicles the fascinating story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to Cal

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On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonl

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Leonardo da Vinci once mused that “we know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot,” a

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The stunning, specially commissioned cover illustrations are one of the great joys of the New Naturalist series, lending

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"This book is for those inhabited by the same desires that drove the early naturalists afield, who yearn to know wi

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The first field guide to all of the world’s major land habitats—richly illustrated and packed with essential information

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