1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459798303321

Autore

O'Flaherty Patrick

Titolo

Scotland's pariah : the life and work of John Pinkerton, 1758-1826 / / Patrick O'Flaherty

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4426-1987-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Disciplina

526.092

Soggetti

Cartographers - Scotland

Historians - Scotland

Electronic books.

Scotland Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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



evaluation of an astonishing literary life.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991003184959707536

Autore

Krebs, John R.

Titolo

An introduction to behavioural ecology / J. R. Krebs, N. B. Davies ; drawings by Jan Parr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; Boston : Blackwell Publishing, 1993

ISBN

0632035463

Edizione

[3th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

xii, 420 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm

Altri autori (Persone)

Davies, Nicholas B.author

Disciplina

591.5

Soggetti

Animal behavior

Behavior evolution

Animal ecology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-405) and indexes