The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed the dawn of a golden age of science, during which time there was a dedicated drive to accurately categorise nature and explain the natural world. Enthusiastic naturalists, amateur and professional, set off to collect and classify plants and animals across the New World, and many of these finds still bear the names of those who discovered them today.
In this new and updated edition, The Noble Quest profiles nine notable naturalists of the pre-Darwinian age: early naturalists William Bartram and Alexander von Humboldt; inquisitive aristocrats Charles Waterton and Prince Maximilian of Wied; professional collectors David Douglas, John Kirk Townsend and John Richardson; and the last of the field naturalists Henry Walter Bates and John Wesley Powell.
All faced great adventures and hardship as they undertook their groundbreaking work and strived to quantify, categorise and rationally explain the planet's flourishing ecosystems.
| ISBN: | 9781837050482 |
| Publication date: | 12th February 2026 |
| Author: | Stephen R Bown |
| Publisher: | The History Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Genres: |
Biography: science, technology and medicine Biography: adventurers and explorers Expeditions: popular accounts Collected biographies True stories of discovery Maritime history Geographical discovery and exploration Wildlife: general interest The Earth: natural history: general interest |
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed the dawn of a golden age of science, during which time there was a dedicated drive to accurately categorise nature and explain the natural world. Enthusiastic naturalists, amateur and professional, set off to collect and classify plants and animals across the New World, and many of these finds still bear the names of those who discovered them today.In this new and updated edition, The Noble Quest profiles nine notable naturalists of the pre-Darwinian age: early naturalists William Bartram and Alexander von Humboldt; inquisitive aristocrats Charles Waterton and Prince Maximilian of Wied; professional collectors David Douglas, John Kirk Townsend and John Richardson; and the last of the field naturalists Henry Walter Bates and John Wesley Powell.All faced great adventures and hardship as they undertook their groundbreaking work and strived to quantify, categorise and rationally explain the planet's flourishing ecosystems.
The Noble Quest features in the following genres: Biography: science, technology and medicine, Biography: adventurers and explorers, Expeditions: popular accounts, Collected biographies, True stories of discovery, Maritime history, Geographical discovery and exploration, Wildlife: general interest, The Earth: natural history: general interest
Hardback. £20.69, down from the £22.99 cover price. In Stock.
The Noble Quest was written by Stephen R Bown and published by The History Press
£20.69, reduced from £22.99. In Stock.