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Tuscaloosa & London: The University of Alabama Press, 1993. Facsimile reprint, illustrated, small octavo, pp 324, paperback, a very good copy. [Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age 17 and made his way to Alabama in 1838, where he had heard educated people were in demand. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold at Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen children of local landowners, but his principal interest was natural history. During the eight months he lived in th Black Belt he watched, listened, thought, took notes, and made sketches--activities that eventually led to Letters from Alabama. He lived among Alabamians, talked and listened to them, saw them at their best and their worst, and came to understand their hopes and fears. They were a part of the natural world, and he paid attention to them as any good scientist would. With the skills of a scientist and the temperament of an artist, Gosse set down an account of natural life in…
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- Title Letters from Alabama: Chiefly Relating to Natural History
- Author Philip Henry Gosse; Introduction by Harvey H. Jackson; Virginia Van Hamilton (Editor)
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- Edition number 1st
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- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
- Date 1993
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780817306830 / 0817306838
- Weight 1.05 lbs (0.48 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.5 x 1.1 in (21.34 x 13.97 x 2.79 cm)
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- Cultural Region: South
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92-27936
- Dewey Decimal Code 508.761
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