The Strange Life Of Charles Waterton 1782 1865
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The Strange Life Of Charles Waterton 1782 1865
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Author : Richard Aldington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
The Strange Life Of Charles Waterton 1782 1865 written by Richard Aldington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Natural history categories.
"From 1782 to 1865 there lived, mainly at Walton Hall in the county of Yorkshire in England, a man whose name was Charles Waterton. He was the Last Great Eccentric. Squire Waterton was also a farmer, a naturalist, and such a traveler as only an Englishman can be. His whole life made a pattern of odd adventure, some of whose highlights were his encounters with a boa constrictor, which he disposed of by a punch to the jaw; with a crocodile, which he rode up and down the Essequibo River; and with an unfortunate donkey. which he first poisoned experimentally with curare and then revived by means of a bellows..." -- Book Jacket.
The Strange Tife Of Charles Waterton
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Author : Richard Aldington
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
The Strange Tife Of Charles Waterton written by Richard Aldington and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.
Charles Waterton
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Author : Julia Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1989
Charles Waterton written by Julia Blackburn and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
During his lifetime Charles Waterton was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he was a notable Victorian figure who turned his park into an animal and bird sanctuary. He was an explorer of tropical rain forests in South America and became an authority on the poisons used by the South American Indians. He was also a taxidermist and published many books, numbering Darwin, Dickens and Roosevelt among his readers. Above all, he was a conservationist who fought to protect nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialization.
Charles Waterton 1782 1865
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Author : Julia Blackburn
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-03-31
Charles Waterton 1782 1865 written by Julia Blackburn and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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 Of Walton Hall
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Author : Norman Moore
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Charles Waterton Of Walton Hall written by Norman Moore and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Naturalists categories.
Richard Aldington
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Author : Norman T. Gates
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2010-11
Richard Aldington written by Norman T. Gates and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11 with Literary Collections categories.
In the most comprehensive selection of his letters ever published, Norman Gates allows Richard Aldington to tell the story of his life in his own words. Unlike Aldington's autobiography, Life for Life's Sake, published twenty years before his death, these letters include those two important decades of his life and do not depend upon memory. Gates provides an introduction to each of the book's five sections, sketching Aldington's biography during that decade, but the reader may then listen to Aldington's own voice speaking through his letters. Richard Aldington was married to the American poet H. D. and was a friend to many other writers and artists at the center of the Modern period. His comments on his colleagues and their work, his efforts to promote their literary fortunes, his passionate love for two wives and two mistresses, are all a part of these letters. So, too, are his experiences on the editorial staffs of the Egoist and the Criterion, which brought him to touch with European and American writers. For a clear picture of the literary world of this time, Aldington's letters are indispensable.
Life
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957-12-02
Life written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957-12-02 with categories.
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
Bibliography Of Natural History Travel Narratives
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Author : Anne S. Troelstra
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-06-01
Bibliography Of Natural History Travel Narratives written by Anne S. Troelstra and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-01 with Reference categories.
Anne Troelstra’s fine bibliography is an outstanding and ground-breaking work. He has provided the academic world with a long-needed bibliographical record of human endeavour in the field of the natural sciences. The travel narratives listed here encompass all aspects of the natural world in every part of the globe, but are especially concerned with its fauna, flora and fossil remains. Such eyewitness accounts have always fascinated their readers, but they were never written solely for entertainment: fragmentary though they often are, these narratives of travel and exploration are of immense importance for our scientific understanding of life on earth, providing us with a window on an ever changing, and often vanishing, natural world. Without such records of the past we could not track, document or understand the significance of changes that are so important for the study of zoogeography. With this book Troelstra gives us a superb overview of natural history travel narratives. The well over four thousand detailed entries, ranging over four centuries and all major western European languages, are drawn from a wide range of sources and include both printed books and periodical contributions. While no subject bibliography by a single author can attain absolute completeness, Troelstra’s work is comprehensive to a truly remarkable degree. The entries are arranged alphabetically by author and chronologically, by the year of first publication, under the author’s name. A brief biography, with the scope and range of their work, is given for each author; every title is set in context, the contents – including illustrations – are described and all known editions and translations are cited. In addition, there is a geographical index that cross refers between authors and the regions visited, and a full list of the bibliographical and biographical sources used in compiling the bibliography.
Medicine And Society In Wakefield And Huddersfield 1780 1870
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Author : Hilary Marland
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1987-09-24
Medicine And Society In Wakefield And Huddersfield 1780 1870 written by Hilary Marland and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-09-24 with History categories.
This ambitious book presents an across-the-board study of medicine, in any urban centre, for any period of British history. By selecting Wakefield and Huddersfield as contrasting types of northern towns, and examining in details their systems of medical care, Dr Marland has written a local history that says something important about the country as a whole. Wakefield and Huddersfield contrasted in their economic demographic and social development during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, allowing an effective comparative analysis of medical facilities in the two communities. By drawing on diverse sources: from Poor Law and philanthropy to self-help organisations, fringe medicine and medical practice, the book places the development of medical services against the backdrop of the communities in which they evolved, their class structure, organization and social, civic and economic developments.
Alfred Hitchcock S Psycho And Taxidermy
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Author : Subarna Mondal
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2024-01-25
Alfred Hitchcock S Psycho And Taxidermy written by Subarna Mondal and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-25 with Performing Arts categories.
There are numerous scholarly works on Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Some of these works have explored its Gothic potentials. However, no detailed effort has yet been made to explore one of its major motifs – taxidermy. Taxidermy as an art of corporeal preservation has effectively been used in mainstream body horror films years after Psycho was released. Yet Psycho was one of the first films to explore its potentials in the Gothic genre at a time when it was relegated to a low form of art. Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and Taxidermy focuses on taxidermy as a cultural practice in both Victorian and modern times and how it has been employed both metaphorically and literally in Hitchcock's films, especially Psycho. It also situates Psycho as a crucial film in the filmic continuum of body horrors where death and docility share a troubled relationship.