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020 _a9781107294462 (ebook)
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100 1 _aFaujas de St-Fond, Barthélemy,
_eauthor.
245 1 2 _aA Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 :
_bA Revised Edition of the English Translation.
_nVolume 1 /
_cBarthélemy Faujas de St-Fond, Edited and translated by Archibald Geikie.
246 3 _aA Journey through England & Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1907.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (400 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. British and Irish History, 19th Century
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aThe French geologist Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history, working at the museum of natural history in Paris and as royal commissioner of mines. His enthusiasm for geology took him in 1784 to Britain, to investigate the basalt formations on the Hebridean island of Staffa described by Sir Joseph Banks in Pennant's Tour in Scotland (also reissued in this series). His subsequent account was published in France in 1797, and first translated into English in an abridged form in 1814. This two-volume annotated translation by the well-known geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), prefaced by a short biography of Faujas, was published in 1907. The work is interesting for its social as well as its geological observations. Volume 1 describes life in scientific circles in London, before recounting Faujas' journey to the Highlands of Scotland via Edinburgh and Glasgow.
700 1 _aGeikie, Archibald,
_eeditor of compilation,
_etranslator.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108071567
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pBritish and Irish History, 19th Century.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107294462
999 _c515030
_d515028