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Charles Waterton, 1782-1865
Conservationist and Traveller
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1991
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978-0-7126-4746-5 (ISBN)
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A biography of one of the first Victorian conservationists, Charles Waterton. The Yorkshire landowner travelled in South America and was an expert on Indian poisons of that continent. Blackburn used his surviving papers as a source for this book.
During his lifetime Charles Waterton was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he turned his park into a sanctuary for animals and birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in the tropical rain forests of South America without a gun or the society of other white men. He was an authority on the poisons used by South American Indians and a taxidermist of note. The huge public that read his books included Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Theodore Roosevelt. Above all, he was a conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialization. Since his death the memory of Waterton's personal eccentricities has flourished, while the originality of his ideas and work has often suffered. Using his surviving papers, the author has redressed the balance in a biography that restores Waterton to his place as the first conservationist of the modern age.
During his lifetime Charles Waterton was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he turned his park into a sanctuary for animals and birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in the tropical rain forests of South America without a gun or the society of other white men. He was an authority on the poisons used by South American Indians and a taxidermist of note. The huge public that read his books included Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin and Theodore Roosevelt. Above all, he was a conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialization. Since his death the memory of Waterton's personal eccentricities has flourished, while the originality of his ideas and work has often suffered. Using his surviving papers, the author has redressed the balance in a biography that restores Waterton to his place as the first conservationist of the modern age.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 28.3.1991 |
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Reihe/Serie | National Trust classics |
Zusatzinfo | 8pp b&w photographs, 1 map |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 135 x 216 mm |
Gewicht | 276 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-7126-4746-5 / 0712647465 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7126-4746-5 / 9780712647465 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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