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George Bentham : Autobiography, 1800-1834 /
The text of the manuscript, preserved in the Archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, is published here for the first time, with an introduction providing historical context, explanatory notes, and indexes of plant names and of persons and works mentioned.
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Buffalo [N.Y.] :
University of Toronto Press,
1997.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Introduction
- Autobiography
- 1 Childhood; St Petersburg, Hampstead, Gosport
- 2 France; Saumur to Toulouse, 1814�18
- 3 Montauban to Montpellier, 1818�22
- 4 A Visit to England, 1823
- 5 A Tour in Scotland and the Lake District
- 6 France Again; Botanizing in the Pyrenees, 1823�25
- 7 Return to England, 1826�27
- 8 London Society; Further Travel, 1827�28
- 9 Legal Studies and Botanical Pursuits, 1829�30
- 10 Death of His Father; Montpellier and Geneva, 1831
- 11 Death of His Uncle; Congress at Vienna, 1832
- 12 Marriage and Botany at Last, 1833�34
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes
- Appendices
- A: Textual Emendations
- B: Textual Variants and Notes
- C: Index of Plant Names
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- D: Index of Persons and Works
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