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Narrative of an Excursion to the Lake Amsanctus and to Mount Vultur in Apulia in 1834 (Paperback)
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Narrative of an Excursion to the Lake Amsanctus and to Mount Vultur in Apulia in 1834 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Physical Sciences
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This short but distinctive paper was published in 1835 by Charles
Daubeny (1795 1867), who began his career as a physician but soon
found his passion to be volcanos. At this time, Daubeny held chairs
in chemistry and botany at Oxford. He had made many field trips to
European volcanic regions between 1819 and 1825, was elected a
Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822, and in 1826 published the
first edition of his famous Description of Active and Extinct
Volcanos, of which a later version also appears in this series.
Here Daubeny describes a winter trip to the Apulia (Puglia) region
in the south-east of Italy, rarely described by travel writers of
his time, to visit Lake Amsanctus, famously mentioned by Virgil,
and the extinct volcano Mount Vultur. Although Daubeny's overall
focus is scientific, his account also includes lively descriptions
of classical remains and rural society in southern Italy.
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