Fauna Boreali-Americana; Or the Zoology of the Northern Parts of British America - Volume 2 Containing Descriptions of the Objects of Natural History Collected on the Late Northern Land Expeditions under Command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
24.01.2012
Verlag
Cambridge AcademicSeitenzahl
698
Maße (L/B/H)
29.7/21/3.7 cm
Gewicht
1779 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-108-04168-3
Sir 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 2 was first published in 1831 and focuses on the species of birds found in the Canadian Arctic. It was co-authored with naturalist and illustrator William Swainson (1789-1855) and contains many illustrations.
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