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Essays investigating the idea of natural heritage and the ways in which it has changed over time.
List of contents
Foreword - Martin Holdgate
Introduction - Ian Convery and Peter Davis
'The Nomination of the Visible': William Turner's Practice of Natural History - Marie Addyman
Early European Perceptions of the Nature of Australia - Charles Nelson
Conserving Natural Heritage: Shifting Positions of Culture and Nature - Darrell Smith and Ian Convery and Andrew Ramsey and Viktor Kouloumpis
Three Birds of a Feather - Darwin, Wallace and Attenborough: An Unbroken Tradition of Finding Where the Wild Things Are - Richard Milner
Organising, Naming and Ordering Nature - Gina Douglas
Our 'Great Entail': Constructing the Cultural Value of the Lake District - Penny Bradshaw
Renaissance Collecting and Understanding of the Natural World - Arthur MacGregor
Botanical Collecting, Herbaria and the Understanding of Nature - Chiara Nepi
Taxidermy and the Representation of Nature - Hannah Paddon
The Significance of Natural History Collections in the 21st Century - Stephen Hewitt
Changed Attitudes to Nature Reflected in the Transformation of Menageries to Zoos - Gordon McGregor Reid
Interpretation in Botanic Gardens - Ghillean T. Prance and Peter Davis
Shifting Interpretations of the English Lake District - Christopher Donaldson
Facebook Nature: My Generation and Other Animals - Lucy McRobert
Visual Narratives in Wildlife Film-making - Sophie Darlington
A History of Half a Century of Wildlife Television and its Impact on Audiences - Keith Scholey
Landscape, Nature and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated Children's Literature - Paul A. Roncken
Landscape, Nature and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated Children's Literature - Ian Convery
The Public Perception of Protected Areas in the UK - Angus Lunn
Conservation of Rare Species and Natural Heritage: the Wild and the Tame - Juliet Clutton-Brock
Our Vanishing Natural Heritage and The Wildlife Trusts: a Century of Influence and Local Action for Nature and People - Tim Sands
Our Vanishing Natural Heritage and The Wildlife Trusts: a Century of Influence and Local Action for Nature and People - Robert Lambert
A Champion of the Tiger's Cause - James Champion
Adventure, Nature and Commodification - Heather Prince and Chris Loynes
Destination Nature: Wildlife and the Rise of Domestic Ecotourism in Britain, 1880-2015 - Robert Lambert
Wild Places as Therapeutic Environments - Julie Taylor
Citizen Science and the Perception of Nature - Ian Convery and Sarah Elmeligi and Samantha Finn and Owen Nevin
Using Community-based Cultural Tourism to Enhance Nature Conservation in the Rupununi, Guyana - Jared Bowers
Representing Natural Heritage in Digital Space: from the National Museum of Natural History to Inuvialuit Living History - Kate Hennessy
Using Community-based Cultural Tourism to Enhance Nature Conservation in the Rupununi, Guyana - Natasha Lyons
Out of the Wild Wood and into our Beds: the Evolutionary History of Teddy Bears and the Natural Selection of Deadly Cuteness - Mike Jeffries
Rewilding: the Realisation and Reality of a New Challenge for Nature in the 21st Century - Erwin van van Maanen
Rewilding: the Realisation and Reality of a New Challenge for Nature in the 21st Century - Ian Convery
About the author
Ian Convery, Peter Davis
