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