Books and naturalists
By: David Elliston Allen
Series: The new naturalist library -- [112]; New naturalist -- 112.
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
ISBN-13: 9780007300174; 9780007240845
Subjects: Natural history; Authorship; Publishing; Natural history literature
Description: "Though met with mixed responses from scientists and naturalists across the centuries, believing the world around them was to be purely 'known' and not read, books on natural history have also come to incite passion and excitement in so many of their readers, and illustrations as much as text have helped to propel this. To have the world around us neatly categorized and named has, to an extent, made it a less daunting place in which to live. In the latest book from the highly acclaimed New Naturalist series, Dr. David Allen explores the world of nature publishing through the course of history, from its very early days in the dawn of publishing, through various significant new discoveries and into the birth of the New Naturalist series itself, highlighting the extraordinary personal stories behind many seminal works."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Series numbering from dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [470]-478) and index.
Table of contents: title: Books and naturalists; title: The earliest authors; title: Disguise discarded; title: Intermission; title: The Linnaean spring; title: Zoology catches up; title: The Linnaean autumn; title: Self-help; title: The popularisation explosion; title: The nineteenth-century publishers; title: Contingent damage; title: Victorian high tide; title: Wider and deeper still; title: Local floras and faunas; title: Shifting ground; title: A jubilee of monographs; title: Edwardian makeover; title: Wanderings; title: Direction recovered; title: New naturalists; title: Field guides aplenty; title: New uncertainties.