Naturalists at sea: Scientific Travellers From Dampier to Darwin [Audiobook] download free by Glyn Williams
- Listen audiobook: Naturalists at sea: Scientific Travellers From Dampier to Darwin
- Author: Glyn Williams
- Release date: 2015/1/2
- Publisher: YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Natural History
- ISBN: 9780300205404
- Rating: 9.09 of 10
- Votes: 602
- Review by: Johnny Nowlin
- Review rating: 8.6 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/29
- Duration: 4H12M40S in 256 kbps (65.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-07-16
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WAV, AC3, WMA, FLAC, TTA, MPEG4, ATRAC (compression ZIP, ISO, BZ, AZW, TAR.BZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 328
- Includes a PDF summary of 32 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M7S (6.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the 'long eighteenth century,' naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrative flora and fauna unknown at home, these men set out eagerly to collect and catalogue, study and document an uncharted natural world. This enthralling book is the first to describe the adventures and misadventures, discoveries and dangers of this devoted and sometimes eccentric band of explorer-scholars. Their individual experiences are uniquely their own, but together their stories offer a new perspective on the extraordinary era of Pacific exploration and the achievements of an audacious generation of naturalists. Historian Glyn Williams illuminates the naturalist's lot aboard ship, where danger alternated with boredom and quarrels with the ship's commander were the norm. Nor did the naturalist's difficulties end upon returning home, where recognition for years of work often proved elusive. Peopled with wonderful characters and major figures of Enlightenment science-among them Louis Antoine de Bouganville, Joseph Banks, John Reinhold Forster, Captain Cook, and Charles Darwin-this book is a gripping account of a small group of scientific travelers whose voyages of discovery were to change perceptions of the natural world.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Natural History Books, History Of Science, Maritime History, Biography: Science, Technology & Engineering, Geographical Discovery & Exploration, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 21.87 USD
- Dimensions: 129.54x195.58x27.94mm
- Weight: 399g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New Haven, United States
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