Letters from Alabama : chiefly relating to natural history / Philip Henry Gosse ; edited by Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosse, Philip Henry, 1810-1888.

Contributor:

Mullen, Gary R. (Gary Richard)

Littleton, Taylor.

Series:

Library of Alabama classics.

Library of Alabama classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural history--Alabama.

Natural history.

Alabama--Description and travel.

Alabama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

University of Alabama Press 2nd ed., Authoritative ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state. Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888), a British naturalist, left home at age seventeen and made his way to Alabama in 1838. He was employed by Judge Reuben Saffold and other planters near Pleasant Hill in Dallas County as a teacher for about a dozen of their children, but his principal interest was natural history. Letters from Alabama is a personalized record of Gosse's perceptive observations durin

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Gary R. Mullen and Taylor D. Littleton; Letters from Alabama - Philip Henry Gosse; Appendix: Taxonomic Lists of the Plants and Animals Mentioned by P. H. Gosse in Letters from Alabama (1859) - Gary R. Mullen; Index

Notes:

Original ed. published 1859.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8647-5

OCLC:

827952443