Book Description
First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Topsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,87 MB
Release : 2016-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 113662757X
First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Edward Topsell
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,86 MB
Release : 1658
Category : Zoology
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Boreman
Publisher :
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 29,18 MB
Release : 1769
Category : Whales
ISBN :
Author : William Cronon
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142992828X
The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of capitalism had upon the ecosystems of New England. Reissued here with an updated afterword by the author and a new preface by the distinguished colonialist John Demos, Changes in the Land, provides a brilliant inter-disciplinary interpretation of how land and people influence one another. With its chilling closing line, "The people of plenty were a people of waste," Cronon's enduring and thought-provoking book is ethno-ecological history at its best.
Author : Hiob Ludolf
Publisher :
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 1684
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Edward Topsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2216 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1136956573
First Published in 1967. This is volume one of three of The History of Four- footed Beasts taken principally from the ‘ Historite Animalium’ of Conrad Gesner. During the first decade of the seventeenth century, when Topsell prepared his translation, zoology had just become a science. It has a unique place: It was the first major book on animals printed in Great Britain in English; and it appeared at the last moment in history when all zoological knowledge since antiquity could be summarized sympathetically, before it was rendered a curiosity by the many new discoveries soon to come.
Author : Jo Whaley
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2008-10
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780811861557
From the Publisher: Butterflies, beetles, dragonflies, and other colorful insects take center stage in this collection of Jo Whaley's dazzling photographs. Inspired by natural history dioramas of an earlier era of scientific discovery, Whaley stages her photographs to emphasize the wonder and gemlike exquisiteness of these creatures through color, texture, and lighting. These simple but captivating portraits encourage the reader to consider the connections between nature and artifice, beauty and decay. Essays by entomologist Linda Wiener, photography curator Deborah Klochko, and Whaley herself complete this volume, which will delight and inspire entomology enthusiasts and anyone fascinated by the stunning results of the intersection of art and science.
Author : Arianne Faber Kolb
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367709
Kolb has produced a thoroughly researched essay on this painting, which is in the Getty Museum. The study focuses on Brueghel's depiction of nature, especially his exacting representation of identifiable species of animals and birds, the names of which are listed. Brueghel's collaboration with other painters, his and other painters' re-use of the same theme and composition, and the history and practice of natural history collection and representation are central themes. The volume, which is printed in a horizontal format (it's 11x8") and heavily illustrated, is written for a general audience, though art historians will also find much of interest.
Author : Virginia DeJohn Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195304466
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Author : Bruce Boehrer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 31,70 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108581161
Animals, Animality, and Literature offers readers a one-volume survey of the field of literary animal studies in both its theoretical and applied dimensions. Focusing on English literary history, with scrupulous attention to the interplay between English and foreign influences, this collection gathers together the work of nineteen internationally noted specialists in this growing discipline. Offering discussion of English literary works from Beowulf to Virginia Woolf and beyond, this book explores the ways human/animal difference has been historically activated within the literary context: in devotional works, in philosophical and zoological treatises, in plays and poems and novels, and more recently within emerging narrative genres such as cinema and animation. With an introductory overview of the historical development of animal studies and afterword looking to the field's future possibilities, Animals, Animality, and Literature provides a wide-ranging survey of where this discipline currently stands.