Letters from Alabama :: chiefly relating to natural history /
This edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age seventeen and made his way to Alabama in 1838. He was employed by Jud...
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University of Alabama Press,
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| Ausgabe: | University of Alabama Press second edition ; [Authoritative edition]. |
| Schriftenreihe: | Library of Alabama classics.
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| Zusammenfassung: | This edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age seventeen and made his way to Alabama in 1838. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold and other planters near Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen of their children, but his principal interest was natural history. Letters from Alabama is a personalized record of Gosse's perceptive observations during his eight-month residence in this small antebellum community. The work addresses a Victorian readership, including entomologists, who Gosse believed were relatively uninformed about the novelty and beauty of this "hilly region of the State of Alabama." Written in an engaging literary style and organized as a series of epistolary discussions, the book contains detailed evocations of the natural history and cultural conditions of frontier Alabama. By the time this book first appeared in 1859, Gosse's scientific publications and fine illustrations had led to his being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. This edition features thirty grayscale lithographs shot directly from the 1859 edition, reset type for easier reading, a new introduction and index by the two foremost scholars of Gosse in Alabama, a new appendix that provides modern scientific and common names for the plant and animal species described by Gosse, and a four-color cover featuring one of the plates from Gosse's Entomologia Alabamensis. |
| Beschreibung: | Original edition published 1859. Includes index. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (viii, 295 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780817386474 0817386475 |
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| spelling | Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqQBDywQGtDW6MyRJQH4q http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50034724 Letters from Alabama : chiefly relating to natural history / Philip Henry Gosse ; edited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton. University of Alabama Press second edition ; [Authoritative edition]. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, [2013] 1 online resource (viii, 295 pages) : illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Library of Alabama classics Original edition published 1859. Includes index. Introduction / Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton -- Letters from Alabama / Philip Henry Gosse -- Appendix : Taxonomic Lists of the Plants and Animals Mentioned by P. H. Gosse in Letters from Alabama (1859) / Gary R. Mullen. This edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age seventeen and made his way to Alabama in 1838. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold and other planters near Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen of their children, but his principal interest was natural history. Letters from Alabama is a personalized record of Gosse's perceptive observations during his eight-month residence in this small antebellum community. The work addresses a Victorian readership, including entomologists, who Gosse believed were relatively uninformed about the novelty and beauty of this "hilly region of the State of Alabama." Written in an engaging literary style and organized as a series of epistolary discussions, the book contains detailed evocations of the natural history and cultural conditions of frontier Alabama. By the time this book first appeared in 1859, Gosse's scientific publications and fine illustrations had led to his being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. This edition features thirty grayscale lithographs shot directly from the 1859 edition, reset type for easier reading, a new introduction and index by the two foremost scholars of Gosse in Alabama, a new appendix that provides modern scientific and common names for the plant and animal species described by Gosse, and a four-color cover featuring one of the plates from Gosse's Entomologia Alabamensis. Natural history Alabama. Alabama Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85003088 Sciences naturelles Alabama. Alabama Descriptions et voyages. NATURE Essays. bisacsh NATURE Reference. bisacsh TRAVEL Special Interest Ecotourism. bisacsh Natural history fast Travel fast Alabama fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRCDtKdF7vHd4P467qDY Mullen, Gary R. (Gary Richard) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjvFvYWMWTVbB7bCH3mFmm http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2002115984 Littleton, Taylor. has work: Letters from Alabama (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGR4rR9tK6MrJtp7wrxbh3 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888. Letters from Alabama. University of Alabama Press 2nd ed., Authoritative ed. Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2013 (DLC) 2012020089 Library of Alabama classics. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84740084 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=525774 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888 Letters from Alabama : chiefly relating to natural history / Library of Alabama classics. Introduction / Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton -- Letters from Alabama / Philip Henry Gosse -- Appendix : Taxonomic Lists of the Plants and Animals Mentioned by P. H. Gosse in Letters from Alabama (1859) / Gary R. Mullen. Natural history Alabama. Sciences naturelles Alabama. NATURE Essays. bisacsh NATURE Reference. bisacsh TRAVEL Special Interest Ecotourism. bisacsh Natural history fast Travel fast |
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| title_full | Letters from Alabama : chiefly relating to natural history / Philip Henry Gosse ; edited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton. |
| title_fullStr | Letters from Alabama : chiefly relating to natural history / Philip Henry Gosse ; edited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Letters from Alabama : chiefly relating to natural history / Philip Henry Gosse ; edited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton. |
| title_short | Letters from Alabama : |
| title_sort | letters from alabama chiefly relating to natural history |
| title_sub | chiefly relating to natural history / |
| topic | Natural history Alabama. Sciences naturelles Alabama. NATURE Essays. bisacsh NATURE Reference. bisacsh TRAVEL Special Interest Ecotourism. bisacsh Natural history fast Travel fast |
| topic_facet | Natural history Alabama. Alabama Description and travel. Sciences naturelles Alabama. Alabama Descriptions et voyages. NATURE Essays. NATURE Reference. TRAVEL Special Interest Ecotourism. Natural history Travel Alabama |
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