Voyages of Discovery: Three Centuries of Natural History Exploration - Hardcover

Rice, A. L.; Rice, Tony

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609605364 ISBN 13: 9780609605363

Publisher: Clarkson Potter, 1999

Synopsis

Recalls three centuries of natural history exploration, and includes maps and rare drawings, as well as the stories of Captain Cook, Charles Darwin, and other explorers

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Anthony Rice is a respected writer, editor, academic, and scientist, with more than 200 publications to his name. Formerly curator of Crustacea at the Natural History Museum in London and Head of Benthic Biology at the Southampton Oceanography Centre, Tony Rice is a specialist in deep-sea biology, a historian of oceanography, and an authority on the Challenger expedition.

From the Inside Flap:

mesmerizing visual record of some of the most significant, and beautiful, discoveries in the history of natural science exploration. Superb artwork and photographs spanning three centuries document advances and watersheds in the field of natural science. The stories of the explorers, naturalists, artists, and photographers behind these images entwine in a fascinating study of human achievement and natural wonder. Handpicked from the vast archives of the Natural History Museum in London, the illustrations and artworks contained in Voyages form a rare and beautiful collection, most of which has never been in the public eye.
        
Highlights include Sir Hans Sloane's 1687 voyage to Jamaica, where he collected and recorded plant specimens, cocoa among them, which are preserved to this day; Maria Sybilla Merian's personal sojourn to Surinam in 1699 to record in brilliant detail butterflies and exotic insects; Darwin's fateful trip to the Galįpago

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0609605364
• ISBN 13: 9780609605363
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 335