Chapters on the Common Things of the Sea-Coast (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Chapters on the Common Things of the Sea-Coast (Classic Reprint) written by Anne Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Chapters on the Common Things of the Sea-Coast The main object of this little book is enable the reader, acquainted with Natural History, to recognise some of the different objects frequent on our shores. There is not one of them all, but has some interesting circumstance connected with it, familiar enough to the man of science, but never suspected by those who have not had opportunity or inclination to study them. Could we trace the mental history of our great naturalists, we should find that many who have devoted their lives to the pursuits of science, had at first their attention directed to it, like Linnaeus, by listening to a conversation, or, like Sir Joseph Banks, by musing, in a leisure moment, on the beauty of a flower; and thus the reading of a little volume like this, on Common Things, may serve to awaken an interest in nature, which shall not sleep again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.