Charles Kingsley

At Last (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (eBook, ePUB)

A Christmas in the West Indies

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Author and clergyman Charles Kingsley took a tour of the West Indies in 1870, producing notes to become this narrative a year later. An account of his travels, this is a fascinating and engaging look at travel in the late-nineteenth century and the way in which the English though of the people of the West Indies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Barnes & Noble
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Altersempfehlung: ab 0 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781411450622
• Artikelnr.: 43811029

Autorenporträt

Charles Kingsley was a broad church priest of the Church of England, a university lecturer, a social reformer, a historian, a novelist, and a poet. He lived from 12 June 1819 to 23 January 1875. He is known for his involvement in Christian socialism, the working men's college, and the establishment of labor cooperatives, which were unsuccessful but inspired later labor reforms. He was Charles Darwin's friend and correspondent. The eldest child of the Reverend Charles Kingsley and his wife, Mary Lucas Kingsley, Kingsley was born in Holne, Devon. Both his sister Charlotte Chanter (1828-1882) and brother Henry Kingsley (1830-1876) were writers. He was the uncle of the explorer and scientist Mary Kingsley and the father of the novelist Lucas Malet (Mary St. Leger Kingsley, 1852-1931). (1862-1900). The early years of Charles Kingsley were spent in Barnack, Northamptonshire, and Clovelly, Devon, where his father served as Curate from 1826 to 1832 and Rector from 1832 to 1836. Before attending King's College London and the University of Cambridge, he received his education at Bristol Grammar School and Helston Grammar School. Charles enrolled in Cambridge's Magdalene College in 1838 and earned his degree there in 1842.