Nature's explorers: adventurers who recorded the wonders of the natural world

Maria Sibylla Merian: artist and explorer -- Mark Catesby: discovreing and depicting the New World -- Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin: collector of sugar apple trees and menageries for the Emperor -- William Bartram: the first ecologist -- Joseph Banks: botanical explorer -- Sydney Parkinson: industrious il...

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Hauptverfasser: Touzel, Grace (VerfasserIn), Pickering, Victoria R.M (VerfasserIn), Lack, Hans Walter 1949- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Natural History Museum 2019
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Zusammenfassung:Maria Sibylla Merian: artist and explorer -- Mark Catesby: discovreing and depicting the New World -- Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin: collector of sugar apple trees and menageries for the Emperor -- William Bartram: the first ecologist -- Joseph Banks: botanical explorer -- Sydney Parkinson: industrious illustrator -- Johann Forster: naturalist, ethnologist and ethnographer -- Alexander von Humboldt: my estate for my expedition -- Ferdinand Bauer: botanical illustrator who voyaged to Australia -- Thomas Watling: depicting early colonial life in Australia -- John James Audubon: the American woodsman who loved to paint birds -- Conrad Martens: South Sea field artist -- Brian Houghton Hodgson: diplomat and scholar -- John Gould: father of Australian ornithology -- Charles Darwin: a collector in love with the natural world -- Joseph Hooker: ground-breaking phytogeographer -- Thomas Baines: artist-explorer of colonial southern Africa and Australia -- Alfred Russel Wallace: forward thinker, environmental and biogeographer -- Henry Walter Bates: the 'model' explorer -- Charles Wyville Thomson: explorer of underwater worlds -- Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine: free-spirited lepidopterist -- Edward Adrian Wilson: Antarctica, nature and man's unconquerable mind -- Hereward Dollman: an entomologist with artistic flair
Beschreibung:240 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:0565094645
9780565094645

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