NEW NATURALIST LIBRARY BOO EB
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NEW NATURALIST LIBRARY BOO EB

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NEW NATURALIST LIBRARY BOO EB

About this book

Natural history, perhaps more than any other pursuit or study, has always relied heavily on books. Without their basic function of enabling the different kinds of animals and plants to be described in adequate detail, the subject could never have come into being and gone on to thrive as it does today.

In displaying nature's colourful diversity, books have stimulated attempts to capture the wonders of the natural world with the pencil or in paint. They have challenged their readers to seek out and record what the countryside has to offer, and they have enabled naturalists to convey to unknown fellow spirits the excitements of 'the chase' and of unexpected discoveries.

In this latest book in the highly-acclaimed New Naturalist series, David Elliston Allen explores the often complicated ways in which books on the flora and fauna of these islands have been published through the years, from the earliest days of printing through to the era of the computerised distribution atlas and the giant multinational compendium.

Difficult to free from market constraints, publication in book form would have remained an elusive aim for all too many naturalists but for the regular trickle of individual publishers who have shared their delight in the subject and leant over backwards to assist it. The important role played by these allies, the colourful backgrounds of many of the authors and the sometimes fraught relationship between the partners in a process in which the aims of business and learning do not necessarily coincide are among the many themes woven together into a fascinating account, which also breaks new ground.

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Information

Publisher
Collins
Year
2010
Print ISBN
9780007300174
eBook ISBN
9780007379736

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Editors’ Preface
  6. CHAPTER 1 Books and Naturalists
  7. CHAPTER 2 The Earliest Authors
  8. CHAPTER 3 Disguise Discarded
  9. CHAPTER 4 Intermission
  10. CHAPTER 5 The Linnaean Spring
  11. CHAPTER 6 Zoology Catches Up
  12. CHAPTER 7 The Linnaean Autumn
  13. CHAPTER 8 Self-Help
  14. CHAPTER 9 The Popularisation Explosion
  15. CHAPTER 10 The Nineteenth-Century Publishers
  16. CHAPTER 11 Contingent Damage
  17. CHAPTER 12 Victorian High Tide
  18. CHAPTER 13 Wider And Deeper Still
  19. CHAPTER 14 Local Floras and Faunas
  20. CHAPTER 15 Shifting Ground
  21. CHAPTER 16 A Jubilee of Monographs
  22. CHAPTER 17 Edwardian Makeover
  23. CHAPTER 18 Wanderings
  24. CHAPTER 19 Direction Recovered
  25. CHAPTER 20 New Naturalists
  26. CHAPTER 21 Field Guides Aplenty
  27. CHAPTER 22 New Uncertainties
  28. Appendix
  29. Principal Sources
  30. References
  31. Index
  32. The New Naturalist Library
  33. EDITORS
  34. Author’s Foreword: and Acknowledgements
  35. About the Author
  36. Picture Credits
  37. Copyright
  38. About the Publisher