{"product_id":"land-and-sea-paperback-9781108073424","title":"Land and Sea (Paperback \/ softback) 9781108073424","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLand and Sea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePhilip Gosse's 1865 work offers essays on aspects of the geography and natural history of the West Country.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003ePhilip Henry Gosse (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108073424, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 28 August 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e442 pages, 15 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.56 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePhilip Henry Gosse (1810–88) is best remembered today for the portrait given by his son Edmund in his autobiographical Father and Son. In his own day, he was famous as a natural historian, and his books were extremely popular. (His Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica is also reissued in this series.) In 1857, Gosse moved from London to Devon, where he spent the rest of his life. This 1865 book offers essays about various aspects of the geography and natural history of the West Country. There are some digressions (one chapter is on the woods of Jamaica), and reminders of the two great Victorian crazes, for ferns and for seashore life, which Gosse's writings partly instigated. In his final essay, on Dartmoor, is an appendix which argues that Britain is the biblical Tarshish - a reminder that Gosse was also a fundamentalist Christian who struggled with many aspects of contemporary science.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Lundy Island\u003cbr\u003e 2. Lundy Island (cont.)\u003cbr\u003e 3. Lundy Island (cont.)\u003cbr\u003e 4. Lundy Island (cont.)\u003cbr\u003e 5. A ramble to Brandy Cove\u003cbr\u003e 6. The sea\u003cbr\u003e 7. Highwater mark\u003cbr\u003e 8. Highwater mark (cont.)\u003cbr\u003e 9. Babbicombe to Hope's Nose\u003cbr\u003e 10. An hour among the Torbay sponges\u003cbr\u003e 11. Goby hunting\u003cbr\u003e 12. Meadfoot and the starfish\u003cbr\u003e 13. A day in the woods of Jamaica\u003cbr\u003e 14. Ferns\u003cbr\u003e 15. Dartmoor and the Dart\u003cbr\u003e Appendix\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Marine biology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Marine biology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Marine%20biology%20%5BPSPM%5D%22\"\u003ePSPM\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266183221528,"sku":"9781108073424","price":37.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781108073424i_a4f4de5d-a39c-4a38-8dfc-563c17f0aa66.jpg?v=1696751460","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/land-and-sea-paperback-9781108073424","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}