To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  History & Other Humanities  History of Science & Nature

A Natural History of Nevis, and the Rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America With Many Other Observations on Nature and Art

By: William Smith(Author)
338 pages
A Natural History of Nevis, and the Rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America
Click to have a closer look
  • A Natural History of Nevis, and the Rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America ISBN: 9781108076999 Paperback Sep 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
    £29.99
    #217151
Price: £29.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

A reprint of a classical work in the Cambridge Library Collection.

During his five years in the 1730s as rector of St John's parish on the Caribbean island of Nevis, William Smith collected a number of remarkable seashells, which he presented to the Woodwardian Museum of Fossils at the University of Cambridge nine years after his return to England. When the incumbent Woodwardian Professor, Charles Mason, asked Smith for 'some account' of the Nevis shells, Smith wrote him a series of eleven undated letters, published as A Natural History of Nevis, and the Rest of the English Leeward Charibee Islands in America in 1745, containing observations on the island's flora and fauna, and details relating to the neighbouring islands. Mason and Smith became friends, and the content of the letters gradually diverged from pure recollection to larger digressions on subjects as varied as cryptography, diseases common to slaves, tarantulas, and the Great Wall of China. The result is an idiosyncratic snapshot of the mind of an educated and slightly eccentric cleric in eighteenth-century England.

Contents

Dedication
Letters I-XI
Index

Customer Reviews

By: William Smith(Author)
338 pages
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides