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A Journey through England and Scotland to the Hebrides in 1784
Barthlemy Faujas De St-Fond
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The French geologist Barthlemy Faujas de Saint-Fond (1741-1819) abandoned the legal profession to pursue studies in natural history, working at the museum of natural history in Paris and as royal commissioner of mines. His enthusiasm for geology took him in 1784 to Britain, to investigate the basalt formations on the Hebridean island of Staffa described by Sir Joseph Banks in Pennant's Tour in Scotland (also reissued in this series). His subsequent account was published in France in 1797, and first translated into English in an abridged form in 1814. This two-volume annotated translation by the well-known geologist Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), prefaced by a short biography of Faujas, was published in 1907. The work is interesting for its social as well as its geological observations. Volume 1 describes life in scientific circles in London, before recounting Faujas' journey to the Highlands of Scotland via Edinburgh and Glasgow.
- Format: Pocket/Paperback
- ISBN: 9781108071567
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 400
- Utgivningsdatum: 2014-05-08
- Översättare: Archibald Geikie
- Förlag: Cambridge University Press