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THE BOTANISTS AND GUIDES OF SNOWDONIA

by Dewi Jones

Published by Carreg Gwalch. 1st. 1996

Slightly better than very good condition. Card wraps. An account of the botanical exploration of Snowdonia. 170 pages.

SIGNED with dedication to title page.

ISBN: 0863813836
Stock no. 1712705

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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

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