Land and Sea (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108073424)

Philip Henry Gosse (1810-88) is best remembered today for the portrait given by his son Edmund in his autobiographical Father and Son. In his own day, he was famous as a natural historian, and his books were extremely popular. (His Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica is also reissued in this series.) In 1857, Gosse moved from London to Devon, where he spent the rest of his life. This 1865 book offers essays about various aspects of the geography and natural history of the West Country. There are some digressions (one chapter is on the woods of Jamaica), and reminders of the two great Victorian crazes, for ferns and for seashore life, which Gosse's writings partly instigated. In his final essay, on Dartmoor, is an appendix which argues that Britain is the biblical Tarshish - a reminder that Gosse was also a fundamentalist Christian who struggled with many aspects of contemporary science.

Author: Philip Henry Gosse
ISBN-10: 1108073425
ISBN-13: 9781108073424
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2014
Pages: 442
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.98d