A Naturalist's Holiday by the Sea
- Publisher : George Routledge
- Published In : London
- Illustrations : frontis, 15 b/w plates, text figs
Description:
Being a collection of essay on the marine, littoral, and shore-land life of the Cornish peninsula including short accounts of the mineralogy and geology, as well as some of the birds of the interior. First edition.
Arthur de Carle Sowerby (1885 - 1954) was a British naturalist and explorer who was raised in China. He was interned by the Japanese during World War II and went to live in the United States in 1949.
Condition
8vo, orig. cloth, rubbed, gilt shell vignette to front board; endpapers browned. Name to endpaper. Vg.
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