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020 _a9781107447240 (ebook)
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050 4 _aQL105
_b.P46 1784
082 0 4 _a591.998
_223
100 1 _aPennant, Thomas,
_d1726-1798,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aArctic Zoology.
_nVolume 1,
_pClass I. Quadrupeds /
_cThomas Pennant.
246 3 0 _aClass I. Quadrupeds
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1784.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (ccxxviii, 185 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Zoology
500 _aIncludes index.
520 _aIn 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.
650 0 _aZoology
_zArctic regions.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108073653
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pZoology.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447240
999 _c514796
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