Philip Henry Gosse

Letters from Alabama (U.S.)

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 1859 work recounts Gosse's nine-month stay in Alabama in 1838-9, with descriptions of the wildlife he observed there.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 459g
• ISBN-13: 9781108084536
• ISBN-10: 1108084532
• Artikelnr.: 42432396

Autorenporträt

Gary R. Mullen is coeditor, with Lance Durden, of Medical and Veterinary Entomology, currently in its second edition, and coauthor, with Taylor D. Littleton, of Philip Henry Gosse: Science and Art in "Letters from Alabama" and "Entomologia Alabamensis." Taylor D. Littleton is coauthor, with Maltby Sykes, of Advancing American Art: Painting, Politics, and Cultural Confrontation at Mid-Century, and coauthor, with Gary R. Mullen, of Philip Henry Gosse: Science and Art in "Letters from Alabama" and "Entomologia Alabamensis."

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Philadelphia
2. Mobile
3. School
4. Night scene
5. Ride to Kahawba
6. Indian corn
7. Description of a southern house
8. Robbing bee's nest
9. Peaches
10. Florida coffee
11. Possum hunting by night
12. Manners of the south
13. Night in the swamp
14. Weather and health
15. Cotton-picking
16. A varied walk
17. Association of ideas
18. Postponement of winter
19. A heavy turkey.