By the light of the glow-worm lamp : three centuries of reflections on nature / edited by Alberto Ma...
By the light of the glow-worm lamp : three centuries of reflections on nature / edited by Alberto Ma...
By the light of the glow-worm lamp : three centuries of reflections on nature / edited by Alberto Manguel.
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Publisher
New York : Plenum Trade, c1998.
Call Numbers
T0390897
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MMS ID
Language
English
Formats
Physical Description
Physical content
ix, 373 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
Landscape. The Falkland Islands / Charles Darwin. La Pampa / R. B. Cunninghame Graham. The Atlantic Forest / Thomas Belt. The Falls of Niagara / Two Brothers. Fauna and Flora of Nevada / Mark Twain. Shooting the Rapids in a Batteau / Henry David Thoreau. Heavenly Place / Priscilla Wakefield. Three N...
King Penguins / Diane Ackerman -- Beasts. The Cat / Edward Topsell. Real Life of the Beaver / John Timbs. The Bonte-Quagga / Theodore Roosevelt and Edmund Heller. The Narwhal / Barry Lopez. Monkeys / G. D. Hale Carpenter -- Insects and Fish. Three Strokes of a Dagger / J. H. Fabre. The Secret of the...
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Plenum Trade, c1998.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
c1998.
Subjects
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"From ancient Greece to the close of the second millennium, the keen scientific eye has been translated over and over into graceful and meaningful texts in which not only the world observed but the act of observation itself is set down for the common reader. By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp represents the best of the nature-writing genre in over...
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Full title
By the light of the glow-worm lamp : three centuries of reflections on nature / edited by Alberto Manguel.
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Artists
Notes
General note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-356) and index.
Transferred from N508/210.
Contextual Information
Date Copyright
c1998.
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Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
T0390897
Record Identifier
74VMyElwJx8b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VMyElwJx8b
Other Identifiers
ISBN
0306459914 (hardbound)
9780306459924 (paperback)
0306459922 (paperback)
9780306459917 (hardbound)
DDC
508
MMS ID
991002104609702626
