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020 _a9781139151917 (ebook)
020 _z9781108041676 (paperback)
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100 1 _aRichardson, John,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aFauna Boreali-Americana; or, The Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America :
_bContaining Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N.
_nVolume 1,
_pThe Mammals /
_cJohn Richardson, Assisted by William Swainson, William Kirby.
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1829.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (410 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 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aSir John Richardson (1787-1865), surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer, went on Sir John Franklin's first two Arctic expeditions as ship's doctor and naturalist, and made observations and collected a large number of plant and animal specimens from the Canadian Arctic. On his return to England after the second expedition he began to write this four-volume work of natural history, first published between 1829 and 1837. A volume is dedicated to each of the classes of mammal, bird, fish and insect, which are found in the Canadian Arctic. This work is an interesting example of pre-Darwinian natural history, full of detailed descriptions of the appearance, anatomy and behaviour of the different species. Volume 1, first published in 1829, focuses on mammals. Descriptions of the species sometimes include details of interactions between humans and that species; for example, unfortunate encounters between sailors and polar bears.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108041676
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pZoology.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139151917
999 _c514889
_d514887