Hugh Miller's memoir
Subtitle: from stonemason to geologist
By: edited by Michael Shortland.
Contributors: Shortland, Michael.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Miller, Hugh, 1802-1856.; Geologists -- Scotland -- Biography.
Description: The centrepiece of this book is the autobiographical memoir written by the celebrated Scottish geologist, writer and newspaper editor Hugh Miller from 1829 to 1830. It is, by any standards, a remarkable document from a remarkable man. Vivid and, for its time, unusually informative, it offers a rare insight into the life and thinking of a figure whose violent progress through school in Cromarty and stormy apprenticeship as a stonemason inspired him to seek refuge in the world of letters.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.