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Albertus Seba cabinet of natural curiosities = : Das Naturalienkabinett = Le cabinet des curiosités naturelles : locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri 1734-1765
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ISBN: 9783836515832 3836515830 Year: 2011 Publisher: Koln ; London : Taschen,

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Journal de bord du voyage du Beagle : 1831-1836
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ISBN: 9782051022668 2051022666 Year: 2011 Publisher: Genève: Slatkine,

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Traduit ici en français pour la première fois, le Journal de bord – Diary – de Charles Darwin est le premier document, demeuré longtemps inédit, qui relate, jour après jour, le voyage du jeune naturaliste autour du monde à bord du trois-mâts barque d’exploration le Beagle. Commencé le lundi 24 octobre 1831 à Plymouth, ce récit s’achèvera, presque cinq ans plus tard, le dimanche 2 octobre 1836 à Falmouth, après un périple au cours duquel le futur réformateur de l’histoire naturelle et auteur de la théorie de la filiation des espèces expliquée par la sélection naturelle aura acquis une provision de spécimens, d’observations, de connaissances positives et de doutes qui constituera le socle et le ferment de sa grande théorie phylogénétique. Matrice du futur Journal de recherches (le fameux Voyage d’un naturaliste autour du monde) qui paraîtra en 1839, le Journal de bord est en premier lieu le récit de cette navigation, tour à tour émerveillée et éprouvante, et de son alternance avec les longues expéditions terrestres (Cap-Vert, Brésil, Uruguay, Argentine, Chili continental et Terre de Feu, Falkland, Chiloé, Galápagos, Tahiti, Nouvelle-Zélande, Australie, Tasmanie, Îles Keeling, Île Maurice, Cap de Bonne-Espérance, Sainte-Hélène, Ascension, Açores) qui furent pour Darwin l’occasion d’étudier tout ce qui, depuis la géologie, essentielle à ses yeux, jusqu’aux hommes, le conduira à douter de la véridicité de la Bible et du bien-fondé de son autorité sur l’enseignement des sciences de la terre et de la vie. La condamnation sans appel de l’impardonnable barbarie de l’esclavage et de la décimation des peuples autochtones est l’une des grandes leçons morales du Journal de bord. Dans une longue préface et des annexes soucieuses de compléter et de rectifier parfois les données avancées par les sources anglo-saxonnes, Patrick Tort, poursuivant un dialogue depuis longtemps amorcé avec le commandant de marine Claude Rouquette, montre comment le jeune Darwin, au cours de son immense voyage de découverte, affermit déjà les bases de ce qui forgera plus tard chez lui, notamment dans La Filiation de l’Homme, la notion cruciale de « civilisation ».

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Natural history --- Geology


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A wonderland of natural history : a souvenir guide
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ISBN: 0954272633 9780954272630 Year: 2011 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Museum of Natural History,

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Journal of Entomology and Zoology.
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Project Gutenberg,

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Zoology --- Natural history.


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Journal of Entomology and Zoology.
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Year: 2011 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : Project Gutenberg,

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Zoology --- Natural history.


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A bush capital year : a natural history of the Canberra region
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ISBN: 0643102248 1283157209 9786613157201 0643101659 9780643101654 9780643102248 9780643101555 0643101551 Year: 2011 Publisher: Collingwood, Vic. : CSIRO Pub.,

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Follows a year in the nature reserves, rural and suburban areas of the ACT.

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Natural history --- Botany --- Zoology


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Het ritme van de seizoenen
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ISBN: 9789064078354 Year: 2011 Publisher: Amsterdam ; Brussel The Reader's Digest

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Seasons --- Nature --- Natural history


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Espèces
Year: 2011 Publisher: Privezac, France Kyrnos Publications

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Revue d'histoire naturelle


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A History of the County of Oxford.
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Year: 2011 Publisher: London : Victoria County History,

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Authoritative account of the history of Henley-on-Thames and its neighbouring parishes. Focused on the south-west Chilterns, this volume looks at the riverside market town of Henley-on-Thames, now famous for its annual Royal Regatta, and at the four neighbouring parishes of Bix, Harpsden, Rotherfield Greys and Rotherfield Peppard. Henley began as a planned town, probably in the late twelfth century, and became a major inland port, funnelling grain, wood and (later) malt into London. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it developed as a coaching centre, and from the nineteenth flourished as a fashionable resort and commuting area, following the belated arrival of the railway and the self-conscious promotion of the Regatta. The adjoining parishes stretch from the river to the Chilterns uplands, comprising a mixed landscape of wood pasture, small hedged closes, and (in the Middle Ages) small open fields. Settlement is characteristically dispersed, and as elsewhere in the Chilterns the balance between crops, grazing and wood exploitation varied over time. The area contains deserted or shrunken settlements, including Bolney and the newly-discovered site of Bix Gibwyn church; its important buildings include Greys Court, established probably in the eleventh century, while Henley itself contains a richness of eighteenth-century brick-built houses alongside medieval timber-framing, several examples of which have recently been dated by dendrochronology.


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The face of the Earth : natural landscapes, science, and culture
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ISBN: 1283278642 9786613278647 0520950712 Year: 2011 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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This lively book sweeps across dramatic and varied terrains-volcanoes and glaciers, billabongs and canyons, prairies and rain forests-to explore how humans have made sense of our planet's marvelous landscapes. In a rich weave of scientific, cultural, and personal stories, The Face of the Earth examines mirages and satellite images, swamp-dwelling heroes and Tibetan nomads, cave paintings and popular movies, investigating how we live with the great shaping forces of nature-from fire to changing climates and the intricacies of adaptation. The book illuminates subjects as diverse as the literary life of hollow Earth theories, the links between the Little Ice Age and Frankenstein's monster, and the spiritual allure of deserts and their scarce waters. Including vivid, on-the-spot accounts by scientists and writers in Saudi Arabia, Australia, Alaska, England, the Rocky Mountains, Antarctica, and elsewhere, The Face of the Earth charts the depth and complexity of our interdependence with the natural world.

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