Letters from Alabama : Chiefly Relating to Natural History /

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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 wa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888
Otros Autores: Littleton, Taylor, Mullen, Gary R. (Gary Richard)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2013.
Edición:University of Alabama Press 2nd ed., Authoritative ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Travel.
Natural history.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
NATURE > Reference.
NATURE > Essays.
Sciences naturelles > Alabama.
Natural history > Alabama.
Alabama.
Alabama > Descriptions et voyages.
Alabama > Description and travel.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Includes index.
Original ed. published 1859.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (307 pages): illustrations.
ISBN:9780817386474

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