Lives of labour; or, Incidents in the career of eminent naturalists and celebrated travellers.
Title:
Lives of labour; or, Incidents in the career of eminent naturalists and celebrated travellers.
Author:
Brightwell, C. L. (Cecilia Lucy), 1811-1875.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London ; New York [etc.] : T. Nelson and sons, 1872.
Physical Description:
253 pages : color frontispiece, color plates. ; 16 cm
General Note:
Added t.-p., illustrated.
These articles, with others, were published, 1861, under title: Romantic incidents in the lives of naturalists and celebrated travellers.
Language:
English
Contents:
Linnæus naming the flowers.--Sketch of the life and wanderings of Le Vaillant.--Scenes in the life of Audubon.--Voyages of François Peron, the zoologist.--Bayard Taylor in the "Northern land."--Adanson's experience among the negroes.--Labours of Pierre Lyonnet, the entomologist.--Incidents in the lives of Latreille and d'Isjouvil.--Incidents in the life of Sonnini.--A sketch of the life of John Swammerdam.--Alexander von Humboldt.--An account of Joseph Dombey, the botanist.--An incident in the life of Dufresnoy.--Adventures of a missionary naturalist in the Nicobar islands.--Passages in the life of John Sibthorp.--Pages from the Abbé Domensch's diary.--Captain Mayne Reid and the quicksand.--Perilous adventure of Bishop Stanley in an Alpine pass.--Visit of M. Huc to the Lamasery of Kounboum.
Format :
Book