Letters from Alabama, (U.S.) : chiefly relating to natural history / Philip Henry Gosse; with an introduction by Harvey H. Jackson III.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888.

Series:

Library of Alabama classics.

The Library of Alabama classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Alabama.

Natural history.

Alabama--Description and travel.

Alabama.

Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888--Diaries.

Gosse, Philip Henry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (362 p.)

Edition:

Annotated ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age 17 and made his way to Alabama in 1838, where he had heard educated people were in demand. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold at Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen children of local landowners, but his principal interest was natural history. During the eight months he lived in th Black Belt he watched, listened, thought, took notes, and made sketches--activities that eventually led to Letters from Alabama. He lived among Alabamians, talked and listened to them, saw them at the

Contents:

CONTENTS; Introduction; Facsimile of Title Page; Preface; Facsimile of Contents; Letters from Alabama; Notes

Notes:

Originally published: London : Morgan and Chase, 1859. With new introd.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0-8173-8312-3

0-585-32308-9

OCLC:

609844495