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Charles Waterton
Author | : Brian W. Edginton |
Publsiher | : James Clarke & Co. |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0718829247 |
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Charles Waterton (1782-1865) n a true English eccentric, ironically self-styled 'the most commonplace of men'. He talked to insects, fought with snakes, rode an alligator and lived like a monk. He was made famous in his own lifetime by publication of hiswide-ranging travels and natural history observations - always fun, often perceptive, and unfailingly individual. One of his more notable contributions to science was the introduction into Europe of curare, now an invaluable drug in surgical operations. He turned his family estate into an extensive nature reserve; long before such things were heard of, and threw open his gates to the local populace as long as they understood that birds and animals had security of tenure. Waterton wrote three volumes of Essays on Natural History and the best-selling Wanderings in South America, which has never been out of print since the first publication in 1825. He was a fearsome satirist and pamphleteer, attacking prominent figures of his day both with his powerful penand with his taxidermy skills. His simple charm made a mockery of all those enemies who tried to capitalise on his human failings. Unlike previous biographies, this book is an unabashed celebration of his eccentricity, a fond salute to a fine old Englishgentleman. In the centenary year of the Canadian national park which is named after him, the life of Charles Waterton should encourage the preservation of what remains of his kind of world, and remind us of what the world has lost to insensitivity and greed.
Charles Waterton
Author | : Richard Hobson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600013143 |
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Charles Waterton
Author | : James Simson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1880 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OXFORD:600014396 |
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Charles Waterton 1782 1865
Author | : Julia Blackburn |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-03-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781448161775 |
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Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he turned his park into a sanctuary for animals and birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in the tropical rain forests of South America without a gun or the society of other white men. He was an authority on the poisons used by South American Indians and a taxidermist of note. The huge public that read his books included Dickens, Darwin and Roosevelt. Since his death the memory of Waterton's personal eccenticities has flourished, while the originality of his ideas and work has often suffered. Using his surviving papers, Julia Blackburn has redressed the balance in a biogr aphy that restores Waterton to his place as the first conservationist of the modern age.
Charles Waterton His Home Habits and Handiwork
Author | : Richard Hobson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1866 |
Genre | : Naturalists |
ISBN | : UIUC:30112069269873 |
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Charles Waterton his home habits and handiwork Reminiscences of nearly thirty years With sixteen illustrations engraved from photographs by S Smith and W L Smith etc Catalogue of pictures at Walton Hall near Wakefield as prepared by the late Mr Waterton
Author | : Richard HOBSON |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 1867 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0018613162 |
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Wanderings in South America
Author | : Charles Waterton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105019978282 |
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The Strange Life of Charles Waterton 1782 1865
Author | : Richard Aldington |
Publsiher | : London, Evans Bros. [1949] |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1949 |
Genre | : Natural history |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059173023345651 |
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