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Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World ~ Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World Hardcover – August 11 2004 by Michael Freeman Author

VICTORIANS and THE PREHISTORICTracks to a lost world ~ The Victorian fascination with the prehistoric extended into the field of fiction Dickens wrote a story for Household Words about a phantom ship on an antediluvian cruise from which primitive monsters could be observed Jules Verne’s thriller Journey to the Centre of the Earth described a world of similarly extinct animals

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Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World ~ Title Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World Author Name Michael Freeman Categories Other Edition First Edition Publisher New Delhi India Orient BlackSwan 2006 ISBN 8125030077 ISBN 13 9788125030072 Binding Paperback Book Condition New Size 175 x 24 Cm Seller ID 015336 Keywords Victorians

Victorians and the prehistoric tracks to a lost world ~ Victorians and the prehistoric tracks to a lost world Michael J Freeman Michael Freeman shows how men and women were both energised and unsettled by the realisation that the formation of the earth over hundreds of millions of years and Darwins theories about the

Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World ~ Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World Michael Freeman Yale University Press London 2004 310 pages £2500 hardback

Michael Freeman Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to ~ Despite the title this is not a book about Victorians or the prehistoric It is about late eighteenth to late nineteenth‐century British explorations of past time through the study of geology and the history of life “Prehistory” has always meant since the word was coined in 1860 accounts of human life antecedent to written records

Victorians and the Prehistoric Yale University Press ~ Tracks to a Lost World 105 bw 27 color illus As the Victorians excavated the earth to create canals and railways in the early part of the nineteenth century geological discoveries brought to light new narratives of the prehistoric ideas that resounded in British society art and literature of the period

Freeman Michael 1950– ~ The Yale Center for British Art also provided Freeman with a fellowship to research Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World which continues a subject touched upon in Railways and the Victorian Imagination

Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World ~ Victorians and the Prehistoric Tracks to a Lost World Hardcover – 3 Aug 2004 by Michael Freeman Author