Landscape in History and other Essays
GEIKIE, Archibald
THE ORIGINAL EDITION
Published: Macmillan, 1905
Stock code: 19783
Price: £124.00
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).