Life and Letters of Hugh Miller - Letters of Hugh Mille

Klappentext The story of a nineteenth-century geologist and his attempt to reconcile his passionate commitment to both science and religion. Zusammenfassung The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller (1871) tells the fascinating story of a Victorian geologist whose life was marked by a passionate commitment to both science and religion and the ongoing attempt to reconcile the two. Volume 1 covers Miller's early life! family! education and apprenticeship as a stonemason. Inhaltsverzeichnis Book I. The Boy: 1. Birth, parentage, and first impressions; 2. Dame school; 3. The Doocot Cave; 4. First glimpse of the Sutherland Highlands; Book II. The Apprentice: 1. Boyish magazines; 2. Early friendships; 3. Conon-side; 4. Returns to Conon-side; Book III. The Journeyman: 1. Favourable opinions from old David Wright and Uncle James; 2. Gairloch; 3. Comes of age; 4. Niddrie; 5. The stone-cutter's disease; 6. Poems addressed to Ross; 7. Poverty, honourable and dishonourable; 8. Miller at twenty-six; 9. Seeks work in Inverness unsuccessfully; 10. Resumes work as a stone-cutter at Cromarty; 11. Miller and his new friends; 12. Miller's political views; 13. Miss Fraser; 14. New outlook in life; 15. Letters to Miss Dunbar of Boath; 16. Two letters on religion; 17. Miscellaneous letters.

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• Authors: Peter Bayne, Bayne Peter
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2011
• EAN: 9781108072373
• ISBN: 978-1-108-07237-3
• No. of pages: 452
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Earth Science; The Life and Letters of Hugh Miller 2 Volume Set
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Biographies, autobiographies; Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Science, Diaries, letters and journals, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Geology, geomorphology and the lithosphere, Biography: science, technology and medicine, Geology & The Lithosphere