The French geologist Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741 1819)
abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural
history, working at the museum of natural history in Paris and as
royal commissioner of mines. His enthusiasm for geology took him in
1784 to Britain, to investigate the basalt formations on the
Hebridean island of Staffa described by Sir Joseph Banks in
Pennant's Tour in Scotland (also reissued in this series). His
subsequent account was published in France in 1797, and first
translated into English in an abridged form in 1814. This
two-volume annotated translation by the well-known geologist Sir
Archibald Geikie (1835 1924), prefaced by a short biography of
Faujas, was published in 1907. The work is interesting for its
social as well as its geological observations. Volume 1 describes
life in scientific circles in London, before recounting Faujas'
journey to the Highlands of Scotland via Edinburgh and Glasgow."
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century, Volume 1 |
| Release date: |
May 2014 |
| First published: |
May 2014 |
| Authors: |
Barthelemy Faujas-de-St-Fond
|
| Editors: |
Archibald Geikie
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
400 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-108-07156-7 |
| Languages: |
English
|
| Subtitles: |
French
|
| Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
Historical geography
|
| LSN: |
1-108-07156-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781108071567 |
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