During his five years in the 1730s as rector of St John's parish on
the Caribbean island of Nevis, William Smith collected a number of
remarkable seashells, which he presented to the Woodwardian Museum
of Fossils at the University of Cambridge nine years after his
return to England. When the incumbent Woodwardian Professor,
Charles Mason, asked Smith for 'some account' of the Nevis shells,
Smith wrote him a series of eleven undated letters, published as
this book in 1745, containing observations on the island's flora
and fauna, and details relating to the neighbouring islands. Mason
and Smith became friends, and the content of the letters gradually
diverged from pure recollection to larger digressions on subjects
as varied as cryptography, diseases common to slaves, tarantulas,
and the Great Wall of China. The result is an idiosyncratic
snapshot of the mind of an educated and slightly eccentric cleric
in eighteenth-century England.
General
| Imprint: |
Cambridge UniversityPress
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - North American History |
| Release date: |
September 2014 |
| Authors: |
William Smith
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 19mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
| Pages: |
338 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-108-07699-9 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
Historical geography
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-108-07699-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781108076999 |
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