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Naturalists at Sea
Author | : Glyn Williams |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2013-10-22 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780300182200 |
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DIV On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world./div DIV /div DIV This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist’s lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship’s commander were the norm. Nor did the naturalist’s difficulties end upon returning home, where recognition for years of work often proved elusive. Peopled with wonderful characters and major figures of Enlightenment science—among them Louis Antoine de Bouganville, Joseph Banks, John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin—this book is a gripping account of a small group of scientific travelers whose voyages of discovery were to change perceptions of the natural world./div
The Windward Road
Author | : Archie Carr |
Publsiher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2013-06-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780307832115 |
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The Windward Road, published in 1956, made history. When Archie Carr began to rove the Caribbean to write about sea turtles, he saw that their numbers were dwindling. Out of this appeal to save them grew the first ventures in international sea turtle conservation and the establishment of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation. In addition to sea turtle biology, Carr recorded his general impressions, producing a natural history sprinkled with colorful stories.
Sea Side Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 1891 |
Genre | : Marine animals |
ISBN | : OCLC:930740944 |
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What If There Were No Sea Otters
Author | : Suzanne Slade |
Publsiher | : Capstone |
Total Pages | : 14 |
Release | : 2010-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781404863972 |
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Discusses the ocean ecosystem and the role of the sea otter as a keystone species in helping to maintain it, describing the otter's place on the food chain and what would happen if the sea otter were to become extinct.
Sea Side Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1878 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:999522407 |
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The Aquarian Naturalist
Author | : Thomas Rymer Jones |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1858 |
Genre | : Marine animals |
ISBN | : BL:A0019930685 |
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Sea Cows Shamans and Scurvy
Author | : Ann Arnold |
Publsiher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-10-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0374399476 |
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On June 4, 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller set sail from Avacha Bay in Siberia on the St. Peter, under the command of Vitus Bering. The crew was bound for America on the last leg of an expedition whose mission was to explore, describe, and map Russia’s vast lands from the Ural Mountains across Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula, and possibly lay claim to the northwest coast of America – if they could find it, for no European had ever reached America by this route. Officially, Steller was the ship’s mineralogist, but in practice he was its doctor, minister, and naturalist as well. Appointed to the expedition in 1737 by the Academy of Science in St. Petersburg, he was sworn to secrecy concerning any discoveries. Making judicious use of Steller’s richly detailed journals and liberal use of illustrations and maps, Ann Arnold allows the reader to join Steller on this fascinating voyage and its final dangerous mission, which left half the crew dead and the rest suffering from scurvy.
Sea side Walks of a Naturalist with His Children
Author | : William Houghton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Fathers and sons |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822037764107 |
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