| Description |
1 online resource (x, 305 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism
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Edinburgh critical studies in romanticism.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-297) and index. |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Tourism, Aesthetics and the Discovery of Scotland -- 2. Natural History, Travel and Early Explorations of Scotland's Natural History -- 3. John Walker's `Report on the Hebrides' (1764-1771) -- 4. A Country Torn and Convulsed: Pioneering Geological Observations in Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland (1769, 1772) -- 5. Astonishing Productions of Volcanic Combustion: Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond's Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides (1784, 1799) -- 6. James Hutton's Geological Tours of Scotland (1764-1788) -- 7. Natural History among the Mountains of a Wild Country: Robert Jameson on Arran, 1797 and 1799 -- 8. End of Romantic Geology in Scotland? John MacCulloch's A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (1819). |
| Summary |
Discovering the Footsteps of Time probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Travel writing -- Scotland -- History and criticism.
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Travel writing. |
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Scotland. |
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Travel writing -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
18th century |
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Travel writing -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Geology in literature.
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Geology in literature. |
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Geology -- Scotland.
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Geology. |
| Chronological Term |
1700-1899 |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Furniss, Tom. Discovering the footsteps of time. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018] 9781474410014 (OCoLC)1019622272 |
| ISBN |
9781474410021 (electronic book) |
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1474410022 (electronic book) |
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9781474410014 |
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1474410014 |
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9781474410038 (epub) |
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