Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and CamelPatrick Wyse Jackson, Geological Society of London Four Centuries of Geological Travel: The Search for Knowledge on Foot, Bicycle, Sledge and Camel focuses on the complexities of geological exploration and will be of particular interest to earth scientists, historians of science and to the general reader interested in science. |
Contents
four centuries of geological travel | 1 |
Britain | 19 |
Europe | 49 |
Geological travellers in view of their philosophical and economical | 63 |
R J D Forbes and Naples | 97 |
Nery Delgado 18351908 in Spain in 1878 | 119 |
the cycling geologist | 135 |
Greenland | 149 |
S BOUHEIRY A The German geologist Georg Hartung 18211891 and the | 229 |
America and the dispersal of | 255 |
soldier polymath and aesthete | 271 |
A E Two Tyrrells cross the Barren Lands of Canada 1893 | 287 |
Charles Darwin and other travellers | 311 |
Australasia | 325 |
soldier surveyor | 343 |
R Nineteenthcentury observations of the Dun Mountain Ophiolite Belt Nelson | 375 |
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