A Journey Through England And Scotland To The Hebrides In 1784

Author : Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781108071567

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A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 by Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond Pdf

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. Volume 1 describes life in scientific circles in London, before recounting Faujas' journey to the Highlands of Scotland via Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Author : Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy),Sir Archibald Geikie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1110790927

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A Journey Through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 ... A Revised Edition of the English Translation by Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy),Sir Archibald Geikie Pdf

Author : Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:702799199

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A Journey Through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 by Faujas-de-St.-Fond (cit., Barthélemy) Pdf

Author : Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108071574

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A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 by Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond Pdf

A two-volume annotated translation, from 1907, of geologist Faujas de Saint-Fond's 1797 account of a journey to the Hebrides.

Author : Barthlemy Faujas De St-Fond
Publisher : Cambridge Library Collection
Page : 798 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108071589

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A Journey Through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784 by Barthlemy Faujas De St-Fond Pdf

Author : George Watson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1698 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1971-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521079349

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The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 by George Watson Pdf

More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.

Author : Anthony Cooke
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474407366

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History of Drinking by Anthony Cooke Pdf

What did Samuel Johnson, James Boswell, Dorothy Wordsworth, James Hogg and Robert Southey have in common? They all toured Scotland and left accounts of their experiences in Scottish inns, ale houses, taverns and hotels. Similarly, poets and writers from Robert Burns and Walter Scott to Ian Rankin and Irvine Welsh have left vivid descriptions of the pleasures and pains of Scottish drinking places. Pubs also provided public spaces for occupational groups to meet, for commercial transactions, for literary and cultural activities and for everyday life and work rituals such as births, marriages and deaths and events linked with the agricultural year. These and other historical issues such as temperance, together with contemporary issues, like the liberalization of licensing laws and the changing nature of Scottish pubs, are discussed in this fascinating book. The book is bought up to the present day by a case study of present day licensees, based on interviews with a range of licensees across Scotland, looking at their experience of the trade and how it has changed in their working lives.

Author : Heather Ewing
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408820759

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The Lost World of James Smithson by Heather Ewing Pdf

In 1836 the United States government received a strange and unprecedented gift - a bequest of 104,960 gold sovereigns (then worth half a million dollars) to establish a foundation in Washington 'for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men'. The Smithsonian Institution, as it would eventually be called, grew into the largest museum and research complex in the world. Yet it owes its existence to an Englishman who never set foot in the United States, and who has remained a shadowy figure for more than a hundred and fifty years. Smithson lived a restless life in the capitals of Europe during the turbulent years of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars; at one time he was trailed by the French secret police, and later languished as a prisoner of war in Denmark for four long years. Yet despite a certain a penchant for gambling and fine living, he had, by the time of his death in Paris in 1829, amassed a financial fortune and a wealth of scientific papers that he left to the new democracy America. Spurned by his natural father and his country, he would be acknowledged for his own achievements in the New World. Drawing on unpublished diaries and letters from archives all over Europe and the United States, Heather Ewing tells the full and compelling story for the first time, revealing a life lived at the heart of the English Enlightenment and illuminating the mind that sparked the creation of America's greatest museum.

Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3477 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135456627

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Literature of Travel and Exploration by Jennifer Speake Pdf

Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.

Author : Michael R Lynn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317324164

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The Sublime Invention by Michael R Lynn Pdf

Ballooning, like the Enlightenment, was a Europe-wide movement and a massive cultural phenomenon. Lynn argues that in order to understand the importance of science during the age of the Enlightenment and Atlantic revolutions, it is crucial to explain how and why ballooning entered and stayed in the public consciousness.

Author : Murray Pittock
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Culloden, Battle of, Scotland, 1746
ISBN : 9780199664078

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Culloden by Murray Pittock Pdf

The story of Culloden, one of the most important battles in Scottish history - how it was fought, how it has been remembered, and what it has come to mean.

Author : John G. Gibson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780773568907

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Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945 by John G. Gibson Pdf

The bagpipe is one of the cultural icons of Scottish highlanders, but in the twentieth century traditional Scottish Gaelic piping has all but disappeared. Few recordings were ever made of traditional pipe music and there are almost no Gaelic-speaking pipers of the old school left. Recording an important aspect of Gaelic culture before it disappears, John Gibson chronicles the decline of traditional Highland Gaelic bagpiping - and Gaelic culture as a whole - and provides examples of traditional bagpipe music that have survived in the New World. Pulling together what is known of eighteenth-century West Highland piping and pipers and relating this to the effects of changing social conditions on traditional Scottish Gaelic piping since the suppression of the last Jacobite rebellion, Gibson presents a new interpretation of the decline of Gaelic piping and a new view of Gaelic society prior to the Highland diaspora. Refuting widely accepted opinions that after Culloden pipes and pipers were effectively banned in Scotland by the Disarming Act (1746), Gibson reveals that traditional dance bagpiping continued at least to the mid-nineteenth century. He argues that the dramatic depopulation of the Highlands in the nineteenth century was one of the main reasons for the decline of piping. Following the path of Scottish emigrants, Gibson traces the history of bagpiping in the New World and uncovers examples of late eighteenth-century traditional bagpiping and dance in Gaelic Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He argues that these anachronistic cultural forms provide a vital link to the vanished folk music and culture of the Scottish highlanders. This definitive study throws light on the ways pipers and piping contributed to social integration in the days of the clan system and on the decline in Scottish Gaelic culture following the abolition of clans. It also illuminates the cultural problems faced by all ethnic minorities assimilated into unitary multinational societies.

Author : Ben Russell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781780234021

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James Watt by Ben Russell Pdf

Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer James Watt (1736–1819) is best known for his pioneering work on the steam engine that became fundamental to the incredible changes and developments wrought by the Industrial Revolution. But in this new biography, Ben Russell tells a much bigger, richer story, peering over Watt’s shoulder to more fully explore the processes he used and how his ephemeral ideas were transformed into tangible artifacts. Over the course of the book, Russell reveals as much about the life of James Watt as he does a history of Britain’s early industrial transformation and the birth of professional engineering. To record this fascinating narrative, Russell draws on a wide range of resources—from archival material to three-dimensional objects to scholarship in a diversity of fields from ceramics to antique machine-making. He explores Watt’s early years and interest in chemistry and examines Watt’s partnership with Matthew Boulton, with whom he would become a successful and wealthy man. In addition to discussing Watt’s work and incredible contributions that changed societies around the world, Russell looks at Britain’s early industrial transformation. Published in association with the Science Museum London, and with seventy illustrations, James Watt is not only an intriguing exploration of the engineer’s life, but also an illuminating journey into the broader practices of invention in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Published in association with the Science Museum, London

Author : Paul Langford
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0198207336

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A Polite and Commercial People by Paul Langford Pdf

The first volume of Sir George Clark's Oxford History of England was published in 1934. Over the following 50 years that series established itself as a standard work of reference, and a repertoire of scholarship. The New Oxford History of England, of which this is the first volume, is its successor. Each volume will set out an authoritative view of the present state of scholarship, presenting a distillation of the knowledge built up by a half-century's research and publication of new sources, and incorporating the perspectives and judgements of modern scholars.

Author : Asa Briggs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317878544

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The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 by Asa Briggs Pdf

The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord Briggs amongst others, since its original publication. The book stresses both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and raises fundamental issues about a period of crucial change in British history - industrialisation, war, constitutional change and the attitudes of politicians towards it, political development, and, not least, society and culture. In the background are the new economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron technology; in the foreground, new social and political problems and new ways of tackling them. The author also discusses perceptions of, and reactions to, changing circumstances, the influence of religion and science on national life, and changing styles in art and literature. The story ends, not with a full stop but with a question mark. Could improvement be maintained? Could balance and progress continue to be reconciled?