Natural History research
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swan_towerSo, I mentioned before that I have a new series.
It will surprise nobody who's been around for the Onyx Court books that I intend to do a bit of research. :-)
NOT AS MUCH AS BEFORE. (Thank god.) But there are some things I want to read about, to get some good material for compost into my head, so this is the first of a couple of posts asking for recommendations.
The first topic up is, of course, the discipline of natural history. Can anybody recommend a good biography of Darwin, something that focuses on the fieldwork end of things? His education, the voyage of the Beagle, that kind of thing; I'm less concerned with what happened after he published his theories. Or books on other natural historians, or the development of the field. I've got a few things to read already, but knowing the internets, it's entirely possible that somebody reading this post has a random love for the topic of nineteenth-century natural history, and knows exactly what I ought to be reading to understand it. If that's you -- or if it isn't, but you know a couple of things you'd recommend -- speak up in the comments.
If you're not familiar with this topic at all, stay tuned; there will be other requests to come.
It will surprise nobody who's been around for the Onyx Court books that I intend to do a bit of research. :-)
NOT AS MUCH AS BEFORE. (Thank god.) But there are some things I want to read about, to get some good material for compost into my head, so this is the first of a couple of posts asking for recommendations.
The first topic up is, of course, the discipline of natural history. Can anybody recommend a good biography of Darwin, something that focuses on the fieldwork end of things? His education, the voyage of the Beagle, that kind of thing; I'm less concerned with what happened after he published his theories. Or books on other natural historians, or the development of the field. I've got a few things to read already, but knowing the internets, it's entirely possible that somebody reading this post has a random love for the topic of nineteenth-century natural history, and knows exactly what I ought to be reading to understand it. If that's you -- or if it isn't, but you know a couple of things you'd recommend -- speak up in the comments.
If you're not familiar with this topic at all, stay tuned; there will be other requests to come.
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Date: 2011-04-06 03:43 pm (UTC)Also I recently read Scott Wiedensaul's "Of a Feather", a history of American birding, and the insights into some of the early ornithological figures may be of interest.
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Date: 2011-04-06 09:39 pm (UTC)