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UNINA9910459798303321 |
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Autore |
O'Flaherty Patrick |
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Titolo |
Scotland's pariah : the life and work of John Pinkerton, 1758-1826 / / Patrick O'Flaherty |
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Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Cartographers - Scotland |
Historians - Scotland |
Electronic books. |
Scotland Biography |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Permissions -- 1. Youth, 1758-1781 -- 2. Finding His Way, 1782-1789 -- 3. The Great Work, 1790-1797 -- 4. Reviewer and Geographer, 1798-1802 -- 5. Paris Interlude, 1802-1805 -- 6. The Dishonoured Veteran, 1806-1814 -- 7. A Banished Man, 1815-1826 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Scotland's Pariah is the first book to examine the remarkable life of John Pinkerton: antiquarian, poet, forger, cartographer, historian, serial adulterer, bigamist, and religious skeptic. A pugnacious and persistent man of letters who knew and was admired by literary masters such as Edward Gibbon, Horace Walpole, and William Godwin, Pinkerton's life was full of personal and professional misadventures.Patrick O'Flaherty's biography presents an engrossing account of Pinkerton's life and works from his early years in Scotland to his Parisian exile, covering his major editorial, antiquarian, and geographic works. Examining Pinkerton's involvement in the London literary scene, his conflicted relationship with the rise of Celtic nationalism, and his response to early literary romanticism, Scotland's Pariah is a shrewd and compassionate |
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evaluation of an astonishing literary life. |
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UNISALENTO991003184959707536 |
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Autore |
Krebs, John R. |
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An introduction to behavioural ecology / J. R. Krebs, N. B. Davies ; drawings by Jan Parr |
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Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Publishing, 1993 |
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[3th ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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xii, 420 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Davies, Nicholas B.author |
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Disciplina |
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Animal behavior |
Behavior evolution |
Animal ecology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-405) and indexes |
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