Bright Paradise - Victorian Scientific Travellers
by Raby, Peter
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0701146133
- ISBN 13
- 9780701146139
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Chatto & Windus, 1996. Illustrated, pp (6), 276, a little age-toned otherwise extremely clean and sound internally, green cloth in excellent condition, in a very good dustwrapper. [This is an account of the great burst of scientific exploration in the 19th century: the search for the North-West passage; the penetration of the Australian outback; and the hunt for the sources of the Nile, Niger, Amazon and Brahmaputra. There are the individual stories of personalities such as Charles Darwin, Alfred Wallace, Henry Bates and Richard Spruce, but the focal point of the book is how these journeys were linked to wider issues: the growth of knowledge; the spread of Empire; the image of the "wild"; and the great Victorian questions of the creation, origins and ascent of man.]. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Mike Park Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012012
- Title
- Bright Paradise - Victorian Scientific Travellers
- Author
- Raby, Peter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0701146133
- ISBN 13
- 9780701146139
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1996
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography; Travel; History of Science;
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