Discovering the Footsteps of Time: Geological Travel Writing about Scotland, 1700-1820

by Tom Furniss

Book Overview

Traces the history of geological travel writing about Scotland across the historical periods of the Scottish Enlightenment and British Romanticism
Discovering the Footsteps of Time probes the development of a distinctively Scottish tradition of geological travel writing from the seventeenth to early nineteenth century. The tradition tracks a fertile interaction of scientific and aesthetic themes, mediated through literary techniques,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474410014
• ISBN13: 9781474410014
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.3"