A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 2 Volume Set: A Revised Edition of the English Translation (Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century) - Softcover

Faujas De St-Fond, Barthélemy

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ISBN 10: 1108071589 ISBN 13: 9781108071581

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

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The French geologist Barthélemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741–1819) went in 1784 to Britain to investigate the basalt formations on the Hebridean island of Staffa, and published an account of his journey in 1797. This two-volume annotated translation, prefaced by a short biography of Faujas, was published in 1907.

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The 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, and as Geikie says, this 'intelligent and often racy narrative giving the impressions and experiences of a cultivated foreigner' deserves to be remembered.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1108071589
• ISBN 13: 9781108071581
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 798