THE BOTANISTS AND GUIDES OF SNOWDONIA
Written by Dewi Jones
Published by Carreg Gwalch
in 1996
ISBN: 0863813836
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- WALES
- SNOWDONIA
- BOTANY
- FLORA
- NATURAL HISTORY
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THE BOTANISTS AND GUIDES OF SNOWDONIA
Written by Dewi Jones.
Stock no. 1712705
1st.
1996.
Softcover.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Card wraps. An account of the botanical exploration of Snowdonia. 170 pages. ISBN: 0863813836. SIGNED with dedication to title page.
Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- William Salesbury's Herbal
- Thomas Glynne, Glynllifon and his Friends
- John Ray and Edward Lhuyd
- The Diary of Samuel Brewer and the Lost Manuscript of William Morris
- John Wynne Griffith of Garn and his Contemporaries
- Hugh Davies, The 'Welsh Linnaeus'
- Conflicting Views of Snowdonia
- The 'Classic Tours'
- Bron y Fedw, 'The Guide's House'
- Evans the Botanist and Richards the Guide
- Bingley's Botanical Tours
- The Reverend Peter Bailey Williams
- John Roberts Penclip, 'A Bygone Welsh Botanist'
- John Williams and the Faunula Grustensis
- Richard Roberts of Melin-y-coed, and the 'Old Mountain Doctor'
- The Searches of Bowman and Wilson
- Babington's Journal
- The Great Victorian Fern Craze
- The Golden Age of the mountain Guide
- Bibliography
- Newspapers and Journal
- Index