Letters from Alabama: Chiefly Relating to Natural History Tapa blanda - 1993 - 1st Edición

Tuscaloosa & London: The University of Alabama Press, 1993. Facsimile reprint, illustrated, small octavo, pp 324, paperback, a very good copy. [Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age 17 and made his way to Alabama in 1838, where he had heard educated people were in demand. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold at Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen children of local landowners, but his principal interest was natural history. During the eight months he lived in th Black Belt he watched, listened, thought, took notes, and made sketches--activities that eventually led to Letters from Alabama. He lived among Alabamians, talked and listened to them, saw them at their best and their worst, and came to understand their hopes and fears. They were a part of the natural world, and he paid attention to them as any good scientist would. With the skills of a scientist and the temperament of an artist, Gosse set down an account of natural life in… Leer más

Tuscaloosa & London: The University of Alabama Press, 1993. [Originally published 1859]. Facsimile reprint, illustrated, small octavo, pp 324, paperback, a very good copy. [Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age 17 and made his way to Alabama in 1838, where he had heard educated people were in demand. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold at Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen children of local landowners, but his principal interest was natural history. During the eight months he lived in th Black Belt he watched, listened, thought, took notes, and made sketches--activities that eventually led to Letters from Alabama. He lived among Alabamians, talked and listened to them, saw them at their best and their worst, and came to understand their hopes and fears. They were a part of the natural world, and he paid attention to them as any good scientist would. With the skills of a scientist and the temperament of an artist, Gosse set down an… Leer más

Tuscaloosa: Univ of Alabama Press, 1993. Still in original shrink wrap.. Trade Paperback. New.

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University Alabama Press, 1993-01-30. Paperback. Good.

University Alabama Press, January 1993. Paper Back . Good. Covers lightly creased.

University Alabama Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket; Pictorial cardstock cover with glued . binding; no bent corners, creases, underlining or highlightling; seems . unread ; No marks or writing, clean tight binding;. 1993. First Edition. Softcover. 0817306838 . Library Of Alabama Classics; 360 pages .

University Alabama Press, 1993-01-30. Paperback. Very Good. 8x5x1. Reprint of the 1859 publication. Text and images unmarked. The wrapper is clean, corners sharp. 8vo. [24] xii, 324pp.

University Alabama Press, 1993-01-30. 1. Paperback. Used:Good.

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