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100 1 _aDaubeny, Charles,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aNarrative of an Excursion to the Lake Amsanctus and to Mount Vultur in Apulia in 1834 /
_cCharles Daubeny.
246 3 _aNarrative of an Excursion to the Lake Amsanctus & to Mount Vultur in Apulia in 1834
264 1 _aPlace of publication not identified :
_bpublisher not identified,
_c1835.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press
300 _a1 online resource (62 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge library collection. Physical Sciences
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aThis short but distinctive paper was published in 1835 by Charles Daubeny (1795-1867), who began his career as a physician but soon found his passion to be volcanos. At this time, Daubeny held chairs in chemistry and botany at Oxford. He had made many field trips to European volcanic regions between 1819 and 1825, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1822, and in 1826 published the first edition of his famous Description of Active and Extinct Volcanos, of which a later version also appears in this series. Here Daubeny describes a winter trip to the Apulia (Puglia) region in the south-east of Italy, rarely described by travel writers of his time, to visit Lake Amsanctus, famously mentioned by Virgil, and the extinct volcano Mount Vultur. Although Daubeny's overall focus is scientific, his account also includes lively descriptions of classical remains and rural society in southern Italy.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108029636
830 0 _aCambridge library collection.
_pPhysical Sciences.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511996986
999 _c515102
_d515100