Nature's explorers : adventurers who recorded the wonders of the natural world. - 240 pages : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-239) and index.

Maria Sibylla Merian: artist and explorer -- Mark Catesby: discovreing and depicting the New World -- Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin: collector of sugar apple trees and menageries for the Emperor -- William Bartram: the first ecologist -- Joseph Banks: botanical explorer -- Sydney Parkinson: industrious illustrator -- Johann Forster: naturalist, ethnologist and ethnographer -- Alexander von Humboldt: my estate for my expedition -- Ferdinand Bauer: botanical illustrator who voyaged to Australia -- Thomas Watling: depicting early colonial life in Australia -- John James Audubon: the American woodsman who loved to paint birds -- Conrad Martens: South Sea field artist -- Brian Houghton Hodgson: diplomat and scholar -- John Gould: father of Australian ornithology -- Charles Darwin: a collector in love with the natural world -- Joseph Hooker: ground-breaking phytogeographer -- Thomas Baines: artist-explorer of colonial southern Africa and Australia -- Alfred Russel Wallace: forward thinker, environmental and biogeographer -- Henry Walter Bates: the 'model' explorer -- Charles Wyville Thomson: explorer of underwater worlds -- Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine: free-spirited lepidopterist -- Edward Adrian Wilson: Antarctica, nature and man's unconquerable mind -- Hereward Dollman: an entomologist with artistic flair.

"Nature's explorers celebrates the individuals who made great personal endeavors in order to document the natural world. Their findings revolutionised our understanding of nature and gave birth to the modern fields of geography, evolutionary biology, oceanography and anthropology. Fround ground-breaking theorists such as Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace to evocative artists like Ferdinand Bauer and John James Audubon, these explorers shared an ambition to illuminate new worlds and each embodied the spirit of the Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution"--Dust jacket.

ISBN: 9780565094645 0565094645

LCCN: 2019458824

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Naturalists--Biography.
Natural history--History.

LC Class. No.: QH26 / .N37 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 508.0922