{"product_id":"letters-from-alabama-gary-r-mullen-9780817317898","title":"Letters from Alabama: Chiefly Relating to Natural History","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis new and improved edition of \u003ci\u003eLetters from Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state.\u003c\/p\u003ePhilip 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.\u003ci\u003e Letters from Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e is a personalized record of Gosse's perceptive observations during his eight-month residence in this small antebellum community. The work addresses a Victorian readership, including entomologists, who Gosse believed were relatively uninformed about the novelty and beauty of this \"hilly region of the State of Alabama.\" Written in an engaging literary style and organized as a series of epistolary discussions, the book is unparalleled in its detailed evocations of the natural history and cultural conditions of frontier Alabama. By the time \u003ci\u003eLetters from Alabama\u003c\/i\u003e appeared in 1859, Gosse's scientific publications and fine illustrations had led to his being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEdited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton, this authoritative edition features thirty grayscale lithographs shot directly from the 1859 edition, reset type for easier reading, a new introduction and index by the two foremost scholars of Gosse in Alabama, a new appendix that provides modern scientific and common names for the plant and animal species described by Gosse, and a four-color cover featuring one of the plates from Gosse's \u003ci\u003eEntomologia Alabamensis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gary R. Mullen, Philip Henry Gosse\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817317899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817317898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/31\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2013","brand":"Gary R. Mullen","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44227546480895,"sku":"9780817317898","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82575630-736e-4a98-bab2-92a4ab199b1a.jpg?v=1692809278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/letters-from-alabama-gary-r-mullen-9780817317898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}