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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
David Hancocks |
ISBN: | 9780520236769 0520236769 |
OCLC Number: | 1026761180 |
Description: | 302 sidor ; 22.9 cm |
Contents: | List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments 1. Collections as Status 2. The Eighteenth-Century Concept 3. The Nineteenth-Century Phenomenon 4. Romanticists and Modernists 5. Toward New Frontiers 6. Immersed in the Landscape 7. Agents of Conservation 8. Which Way the Future? Epilogue Bibliography Illustration Credits Index |
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"Brilliant. Its clear and unpretentious language and Hancocks' evident passion for and knowledge of his subject made it one of the best books I have read in a long while."-Tim Murray, The Age (Melbourne) An "excellent survey."-BBC Wildlife Read more...

