A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 2 Volume Set
A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 2 Volume Set
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USDThe 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.
Product details
May 2014Multiple copy pack
9781108071581
798 pages
216 × 139 × 47 mm
1.11kg
7 b/w illus.
Out of stock in print form with no current plan to reprint
Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Preface
- Memoir of the author
- 1. London
- 2. Sir Joseph Banks' country-house
- 3. Arts and manufactures
- 4. Monument to the fire of London
- 5. Departure for Scotland
- 6. Newcastle
- 7. Departure from Newcastle
- 8. Doctor Swediaur
- 9. Departure from Edinburgh
- 10. Departure from Glasgow
- 11. Departure from Inverary
- 12. Departure from Dalmally
- 13. Natural history of Oban. Volume 2:
- 1. Departure from Oban to the Isle of Mull
- 2. Journey from Aros of Torloisk
- 3. Voyage to Staffa
- 4. Description and natural history of the isle of Staffa
- 5. Stay at Mr Maclean's
- 6. Departure from Torloisk
- 7. Natural history of the Isle of Mull
- 8. The isle of Kerrera
- 9. Departure from Oban
- 10. Kenmore
- 11. Perth
- 12. St Andrews
- 13. Departure from St Andrews
- 14. Edinburgh
- 15. Departure from Edinburgh
- 16. Manchester
- 17. Departure from Manchester
- 18. Castleton
- 19. Derby
- 20. Departure from Derby
- 21. Departure from Birmingham
- Postscript
- Index.
