A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784
A Revised Edition of the English Translation

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

Barthélemy Faujas de St-Fond (Author), Archibald Geikie (Edited and translated by)

9781108071567, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 May 2014

400 pages, 3 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg

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.

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.

Subject Areas: Historical geography [HBTP]