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" Four centuries of geological travel : "
edited by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson.
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BL
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1019224
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b773594
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Four centuries of geological travel : : the search for knowledge on foot, bicycle, sledge and camel /\ edited by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson.
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London :: The Geological Society,, 2007.
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Geological Society special publication ;; no. 287
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vi, 415 pages, [1] folded sheet :: illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits ;; 26 cm.
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186239234X
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: 9781862392342
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Global peregrinations : four centuries of geological travel / P.N. Wyse Jackson -- The organized traveler : scientific instructions for geological travels in Italy and Europe during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / E. Vaccari -- The geological observations of Robert Hooke (1635-1703) on the Isle of Wight / E.T. Drake -- Robert Jameson on the Isle of Arran, 1797-1799 : in search of Hutton's 'Theory of the earth' / C.J. Nicholas & P.N. Pearson -- Writing, 'inscription' and fact : eighteenth century mineralogical books based on travels in the Habsburg regions, the Carpathian Mountains / M. Klemun -- Geological travellers in view of their philosophical and economical intentions : Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) and Caspar Maria Count Sternberg (1761-1838) / C. Schweizer -- Geological travellers in Auvergne, 1751-1800 / K.L. Taylor -- J.D. Forbes and Naples / D.R. Dean -- The geological travels of Charles Lyell, Charlotte Murchison and Roderick Impey Murchison in France and northern Italy (1828) / M. Kölbl-Ebert -- Sharing common ground : Nery Delgado (1835-1908) in Spain in 1878 / A. Carneiro -- Grenville Arthur James Cole (1859-1924) : the cycling geologist / P.N. Wyse Jackson -- The travels and travails of Sir Charles Lewis Giesecke / A. Whittaker -- Alexander von Humboldt in Russia : the 1829 expedition / F. Naumann -- Hermann Abich (1806-1886) : 'the father of Caucasian geology' and his travels in the Caucasus and Armenian highlands / E.E. Milanovsky -- On camelback : René Chudeau (1864-1921), Conrad Kilian (1898-1950), Albert Félix de Lapparent (1905-1975), and Théodore Monod (1902-2000), four French geological travellers cross the Sahara / P. Taquet -- Théodore Andre Monod and the lost Fer de Dieu meteorite of Chinguetti, Mauritania / U.B. Marvin -- The geological travels of Sir Charles Lyell in Madeira and the Canary Islands, 1853-1854 / L.G. Wilson -- The German geologist Georg Hartung (1821-1891) and the geology of the Azores and Madeira islands / M.S. Pinto & A. Bouheiry -- 'Marks of extreme violence' : Charles Darwin's geological observations at St Jago (São Tiago), Cape Verde islands / P.N. Pearson & C.J. Nicholas -- Naturalists from Neuchâtel : America and the dispersal of Agassiz's scientific factory / R.H. Silliman -- Clarence Edward Dutton (1841-1912) : soldier, polymath, and aesthete / A.R. Orme -- Two Tyrrells cross the Barren Lands of Canada, 1893 / D.A.E. Spalding -- Investigating the colonies : native geological travellers in the Portuguese empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / S.F. de M. Figueirôa, C.P. Da Silva & E.M. Pataca -- Doing and knowing : Charles Darwin and other travellers / S. Herbert -- The quest for limestone in colonial New South Wales, 1788-1825 / W. Mayer -- In the footsteps of Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (1792-1855) : soldier, surveyor, explorer, geologist, and probably the first person to compile geological maps in Australia / D. Oldroyd -- Nineteenth-century observations of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt, Nelson, New Zealand and trans-Tasman correlations / M.R. Johnston -- Franz Hilgendorf (1839-1904) : introducer of evolutionary theory to Japan around 1873 / M. Yajima -- Geophysical travelers : the magneticians of the Carnegie Institution of Washington / G.A. Good.
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Geologists-- Travel-- History.
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Geology-- History.
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Expedition
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Forschungsreise
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Geologe
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Geologie
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Geology.
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550
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QE21.F68 2007
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Wyse Jackson, Patrick.
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Geological Society of London.
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