Philip Henry Gosse

Philip Henry Gosse by Ann Thwaite


ISBN
9780571193288
Published
Released
29 / 10 / 2002
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
416
Dimensions
164 x 242mm

The author of forty books, Philip Henry Gosse also perfected and popularised the aquarium, and travelled widely before settling in Devon as a self-trained entomologist, botanist, lepidopterist, ornithologist, and, above all, marine biologist. In a reassessment of the extraordinary life of the man described by Stephen Jay Gould, the Harvard palaeontologist, as the 'David Attenborough of his day', Ann Thwaite also addresses the key question of why he has been perceived as a cruel and tyrannical father - a notion generally attributed to Father and Son, the classic memoir by his son Edmund. But Edmund himself was shocked and surprised by such reactions to his work. The father he remembered - the man deemed by the Royal Society to have done more than any before to popularise the study of natural history in England, - was at odds with this portrait he seemed to have delivered to the public domain.
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