TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pennant,Thomas
TI  - Arctic Zoology
T2  - Cambridge library collection. Zoology
SN  - 9781107447240 (ebook)
AV  - QL105 .P46 1784
U1  - 591.998 23
PY  - 1784///
CY  - Place of publication not identified
PB  - publisher not identified
KW  - Zoology
KW  - Arctic regions
N1  - Includes index
N2  - In the 'Advertisement' to this 1784 two-volume work, Thomas Pennant (1726-98), zoologist and traveller, explains that his original intention was to record the zoology of North America 'when the empire of Great Britain was entire'. After the War of Independence, he changed his focus to the zoology (and people, archaeology and geology) of the Arctic regions of America, Europe and Siberia. The content of the volumes, one of the earliest works of systematic zoology published in Britain, is based on the writings of earlier zoologists, information obtained by Pennant from his scientific correspondents all over Europe and America, and his studies in private museums and collections. It is embellished with engravings of animals, birds, landscapes and artefacts. Volume 1 begins with an account of the various Arctic habitats, and describes the quadrupeds of these regions. Other works by Thomas Pennant are also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447240
ER  -