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Land and Sea

By: Philip Henry Gosse(Author)
444 pages, 15 b/w illustrations
Land and Sea
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  • Land and Sea ISBN: 9781108073424 Paperback Aug 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 6 days
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About this book

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

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 Land and Sea.) 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.

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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By: Philip Henry Gosse(Author)
444 pages, 15 b/w illustrations
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