Sightseers and Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Natural History by Stephen R. Bown

Sightseers and Scholars: Scientific Travellers in the Golden Age of Natural History

Stephen R. Bown

256 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history science adventurous informative reflective medium-paced
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Sightseers and Scholars provides portraits of the explorers and naturalists who sought to explore the New World in the pre-Darwinian Age. The late 18th and early 19th centuries in Europe and America saw the dawn of a golden age of science in which...

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