Discovering the footsteps of time : geological travel writing about Scotland, 1700-1820 / Tom Furniss.
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TextSeries: Edinburgh critical studies in romanticismPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (x, 305 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781474410021
- 1474410022
- Travel writing -- Scotland -- History and criticism
- Travel writing -- Scotland -- History -- 18th century
- Travel writing -- Scotland -- History -- 19th century
- Geology in literature
- Geology -- Scotland
- Voyage -- Art d'écrire -- Écosse -- Histoire et critique
- Voyage -- Art d'écrire -- Écosse -- Histoire -- 18e siècle
- Voyage -- Art d'écrire -- Écosse -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Géologie dans la littérature
- Géologie -- Écosse
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General
- Geology
- Geology in literature
- Travel writing
- Scotland
- 1700-1899
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- PR8522.T73 F87 2018eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-297) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Tourism, Aesthetics and the Discovery of Scotland -- 2. Natural History, Travel and Early Explorations of Scotland's Natural History -- 3. John Walker's `Report on the Hebrides' (1764-1771) -- 4. A Country Torn and Convulsed: Pioneering Geological Observations in Thomas Pennant's Tours of Scotland (1769, 1772) -- 5. Astonishing Productions of Volcanic Combustion: Barthelemy Faujas de Saint-Fond's Travels in England, Scotland, and the Hebrides (1784, 1799) -- 6. James Hutton's Geological Tours of Scotland (1764-1788) -- 7. Natural History among the Mountains of a Wild Country: Robert Jameson on Arran, 1797 and 1799 -- 8. The End of Romantic Geology in Scotland? John MacCulloch's A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland (1819).
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Discovering the Footsteps of Time probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century.
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