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Variations on the Canon
Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen. Charles Rosen, the pianist and man …
The Romance of Natural History
Omphalos, 1857
Gosse argued that fossils are not really the remains of creatures which existed. God had created the world in six days, but had made it look like it was already ancient, complete …
Letters from Alabama
This new and improved edition of Letters from Alabama offers a valuable window into pioneer Alabama and the landscape and life-forms encountered by early settlers of the state. …
Evenings At The Microscope
Omphalos an Attempt to Untie the Geological Knot
Gosse's a Year at the Shore
Actinologia Britannica :
History of Piracy
Written by an eminent authority on pirate lore and literature, The History of Piracy is one of the most important books on the subject. Tracing the rise of piracy from its ancient …
Letters from Alabama (U.S.)
The English naturalist Philip Henry Gosse (1810–88) spent nine months in 1838–9 in a small town in Alabama where he was the teacher at the local school. His time there was unhappy …