Books and naturalists / David Elliston Allen.

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Main Author: Allen, David Elliston
Language:English
Published: London : Collins, 2010.
Series:New naturalist ; [112].
Subjects:
Natural history literature > Publishing > Great Britain.
Physical Description:xiv, 495 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Books and naturalists
  • The earliest authors
  • Disguise discarded
  • Intermission
  • The Linnaean spring
  • Zoology catches up
  • The Linnaean autumn
  • Self-help
  • The popularisation explosion
  • The nineteenth-century publishers
  • Contingent damage
  • Victorian high tide
  • Wider and deeper still
  • Local floras and faunas
  • Shifting ground
  • A jubilee of monographs
  • Edwardian makeover
  • Wanderings
  • Direction recovered
  • New naturalists
  • Field guides aplenty
  • New uncertainties.