Author: GEIKIE Archibald
Title: Landscape in History and other Essays. THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Description: Macmillan,, 1905. 8vo., First Edition; original blue buckram, gilt back, neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. THE ORIGINAL EDITION OF GEIKIE'S CLASSIC COLLECTION. Collects ten essays: Landscape in History, Landscape and the Imagination; Landscape and Literature; The Origin of the Scenery of the British Islands; The Centenary of Hutton's Theory of the Earth; Geological Time; The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin; Hugh Miller. His Work and Influence; Science in Education; The Roman Campagna. Pre-eminent among British geologists, Geikie remains the only one to have been appointed President of the Royal Society (1908-1912).

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