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Eaten by a giant clam : great adventures in natural science

Cummins, Joseph2010
Books, Manuscripts
The history of natural science is often a case of truth being stranger than fiction. There are countless stirring, occasionally alarming, natural history adventure stories, rollicking tales of men and women risking life and limb in the name of science.
Imprint:
Millers Point Pier 9 2010
Collation:
343 p.
Contents:
The John Tradescants: 'what is rare in land, in sea, in air' -- Maria Sibylla Merian: The wonderful transformation -- Carl Linnaeus: 'God created, Linnaeus arranged' -- Georg Steller: Sunday's child -- William Bartram: 'plant hunter' -- Joseph Banks: gentleman naturalist -- Alexander von Humboldt: 'the unity of nature' -- Charles Waterton: the squire of Walton Hall -- Prince Maximilian of Wied: 'a solemn silence prevailed' -- Constantine Samuel Rafinesque: 'It is usually safe to reject his conclusions' -- John Richardson: 'an inhabitant of these wilds' -- David Douglas: scientific traveller -- Mary Anning: fossils in the Blue Lias -- Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker: adventurous scholar -- Henry Walter Bates: 'a solitary stranger on a strange errand' -- Marianne North: 'a very wild bird' -- Frederick Courteney Selous: ' the last of the big-game hunters' -- Eugene Dubois: Java Man -- Mary Kingsley: 'Why has this man not been buried' -- George Forrest: 'of seed such abundance' -- Roy Chapman Andrews: Dinosaurs in his bones -- W. Douglas Burden: Here be dragons!
ISBN:
9781741967531 (hbk)
Dewey class:
508 EAT
Local class:
508
Language:
English
BRN:
82420
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
St MarysNonfiction508 EATAvailable
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