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Letters from Alabama : Chiefly Relating to Natural History /
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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Tuscaloosa, Ala. :
University of Alabama Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | University of Alabama Press 2nd ed., Authoritative ed. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Letters from Alabama : |b Chiefly Relating to Natural History / |c Philip Henry Gosse ; edited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton. |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Library of Alabama classics | |
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 500 | |a Original ed. published 1859. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction -- Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton; Letters from Alabama -- Philip Henry Gosse; Appendix: Taxonomic Lists of the Plants and Animals Mentioned by P. H. Gosse in Letters from Alabama (1859) -- Gary R. Mullen; Index | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 US Regional Studies, South | ||
| 945 | |a Project MUSE - 2013 Complete | ||