Reviews for A catalogue of the South-East Asian history collections of Dr. D.K. Bassett in the Brynmor J...

The average rating for A catalogue of the South-East Asian history collections of Dr. D.K. Bassett in the Brynmor J... based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-06 00:00:00 Gregory Lamphear A deliciously engaging work of social history that acquaints you with all the major players of the natural history era and how they seamlessly merged religious devotion, poetry, and amateur science to create a curiosity for all things natural that ruled the Victorian era. Full of absolutely terrific anecdotes of 19th century ingenuity and eccentricity that will make you want to quote the book at dinner parties. This book does not contain any information on the impact natural history had on other areas of Victorian society or how the modes of reflection it encouraged gave way to early ecology and environmentalism, and it engages in a subtle, ironic mockery of some Victorian mores, but if you're willing to read it just out of love for science or to be transported to the Victorian era, you will find it is hard to put down.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-09-12 00:00:00 Manuel P�rez Palomo this is such an awesome book I'm driving Jake nuts with my excerpts read aloud every night. Lynn Barber covers this interesting period of history--when the study of natural history was considered less than "real" science and more a bunch of fad-like phases. Funny, informative, and my favorite subject! Barber's memoir "An Education" is what alerted me to this book.