Allan Cunningham: letters of a botanist/explorer, 1791-1839

Allan Cunningham is rightly celebrated as the leading botanist in Australia in the first half of the 19th century. He was also an accomplished explorer, and a pioneer physical geographer, plant geographer and ecologist at a time when those sciences were in their infancy. Cunningham was a very enthus...

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Hauptverfasser: Orchard, Anthony E. 1946- (VerfasserIn), Orchard, Theresa Ann 1942- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Weston Creek, ACT Tony Orchard [2015]
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Zusammenfassung:Allan Cunningham is rightly celebrated as the leading botanist in Australia in the first half of the 19th century. He was also an accomplished explorer, and a pioneer physical geographer, plant geographer and ecologist at a time when those sciences were in their infancy. Cunningham was a very enthusiastic correspondent, both in the numbers and (often) length of his letters, and this book brings together over 490 letters, to him, from him, and (between third parties) about him. The correspondence includes communications with the world's leading botanists, several New South Wales Governors, an ambassador, government officials, friends, family, colleagues, missionaries, and the proponents of the South Australian Land Co. and the Australian Agricultural Co. Together for the first time, they provide a new perspective on this humble but talented man, and on his life in Australia, London and Brazil in the early 1800s
Beschreibung:Preliminary correspondence -- Contract period, Brazil, 1814-1816 -- Contract period, NSW, Oxley Expedition & King Voyages 1817-1822 -- Contract period, NSW, land exploration 1822-1831 -- Cunningham in London 1831-1836 -- Cunningham in Sydney 1837-1841 -- Miscellaneous letters referring to Cunningham -- Biographical notes on the main correspondents
Beschreibung:viii, 592 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten
ISBN:9780994150523
0994150520

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