Victorians and the Prehistoric
Tracks to a Lost World
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Word Count
80,000 words, Guess
Page Count
320 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL10318985M
- ISBN-139780300103342
- ISBN-100300103344
- OCLC Control Number54929622
- OCLC Control Numbervictoriansprehis0000free
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2004007555
- Goodreads599600
- LibraryThing423076
Classifications
- LCCQE705.G7F74 2004
Description
"Michael Freeman shows how men and women were both energised and unsettled by the realisation that the formation of the earth over hundreds of millions of years and Darwin's theories about the origins of life contradicted what they had read in the Bible. He describes the rock and fossil collecting craze that emerged, the sources of inspiration and imagery discovered by writers and artists, and the new importance of geologists and paleontologists. He also notes that the intellectual and emotional journey undertaken by Victorian men and women in the face of the unfolding earth narratives was increasingly being recorded, in more institutional form, in the museums that were springing up in Victorian cities and towns."--BOOK JACKET.
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