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Letters from Alabama : chiefly relating to natural history / / Philip Henry Gosse ; edited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton



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Autore: Gosse Philip Henry <1810-1888.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Letters from Alabama : chiefly relating to natural history / / Philip Henry Gosse ; edited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Tuscaloosa, Ala., : University of Alabama Press, 2013
Edizione: University of Alabama Press 2nd ed., Authoritative ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (309 p.)
Disciplina: 508.761
Soggetto topico: Natural history - Alabama
Soggetto geografico: Alabama Description and travel
Altri autori: MullenGary R (Gary Richard)  
LittletonTaylor  
Note generali: Original ed. published 1859.
Includes index.
Nota di contenuto: Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton; Letters from Alabama - Philip Henry Gosse; Appendix: Taxonomic Lists of the Plants and Animals Mentioned by P. H. Gosse in Letters from Alabama (1859) - Gary R. Mullen; Index
Sommario/riassunto: This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age seventeen and made his way to Alabama in 1838. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold and other planters near Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen of their children, but his principal interest was natural history. Letters from Alabama is a personalized record of Gosse's perceptive observations durin
Titolo autorizzato: Letters from Alabama  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8173-8647-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910813527503321
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Serie: Library of Alabama classics.