The Calf with Two Heads: Transatlantic Natural History in the Canadas

by Louisa Blair

These beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men and women who crossed the oceans from Europe to explore, map, draw, puzzle about, collect and exhibit nature in Canada. Informed by French, British and Indigenous naturalists, they tried to understand what they saw. What did it all mean about the origins of the world?Louisa Blair, an amateur naturalist in Quebec and a transatlantic species...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771863307
• ISBN13: 9781771863308
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Baraka Books
• Length: 150 Pages