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Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870 Mary Ellen Bellanca Annotated edition
Daybooks of Discovery: Nature Diaries in Britain, 1770-1870
Mary Ellen Bellanca
Rooted in a thriving culture of amateur natural history, the keeping of nature journals and diaries flourished in late-eighteenth-and early-nineteenth-century Britain. This book offers a critical study of this genre. Each chapter situates an individual author's journals amid contemporary discourses of natural history.
304 pages
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | May 23, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813926131 |
| Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 228 × 156 × 20 mm · 394 g |