During his lifetime Charles Waterton was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he was a notable Victorian figure who turned his park into an animal and bird sanctuary. He was an explorer of tropical rain forests in South America and became an authority on the poisons used by the South American Indians. He was also a taxidermist and published many books, numbering Darwin, Dickens and Roosevelt among his readers. Above all, he was a conservationist who fought to ...
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During his lifetime Charles Waterton was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he was a notable Victorian figure who turned his park into an animal and bird sanctuary. He was an explorer of tropical rain forests in South America and became an authority on the poisons used by the South American Indians. He was also a taxidermist and published many books, numbering Darwin, Dickens and Roosevelt among his readers. Above all, he was a conservationist who fought to protect nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialization. The author draws on his surviving papers and seeks to counter the distorted view of him as a mere eccentric. Instead she seeks to reinstate him as the first conservationist of the modern age.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo. ix, 243pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Or boards in jacket. Very slight edge wear to jacket, a few small toned spots to edges. Waterton was famous during his lifetime for his eccentricities. He turned his park into a sanctuary for animals and birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in the South American rainforest without a gun. He was an authoritiy on poisons used by South American Indians and a taxidermist of note. Above all he was a conservationist who fought to protect wild nature from the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation.
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