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    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    18 December 2014
    08 May 2014
    ISBN:
    9781107294479
    9781108071574
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107294479
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    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.5kg, 398 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Social and Population History, Environmental History, British History after 1450, History, Geomorphology and Physical Geography
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    Subjects:
    Earth and Environmental Sciences, Social and Population History, Environmental History, British History after 1450, History, Geomorphology and Physical Geography
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - British and Irish History, 19th Century
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    The French geologist Barthélemy 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 2 describes the geology and natural history of the Hebrides. On his return journey, Faujas also visits the geological marvels of Derbyshire.

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