{"product_id":"the-calf-with-two-heads-transatlantic-natural-history-in-the-canadas-9781771863308","title":"The Calf with Two Heads: Transatlantic Natural History in the Canadas","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese beautifully illustrated stories of natural history in nineteenth-century Canada are about the curious men and women who crossed the oceans from Europe to explore, map, draw, puzzle about, collect and exhibit nature in Canada. Informed by French, British and Indigenous naturalists, they tried to understand what they saw. What did it all mean about the origins of the world? Louisa Blair, an amateur naturalist in Quebec and a transatlantic species herself, tells tales on Darwin, Russell Wallace and James Cook, and lingers on the strange and colourful details of Canada's stubborn resistance to evolutionism and its first natural history museums with their penchant for deformities. These stories feature Indigenous mapmakers, botanical artists, bug-bitten rock fanatics, arctic explorers, and a trio of Quebec women who managed to get plants named after themselves. To make her case, Louisa Blair has gathered a vast collection of vintage illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn short, muddy boots, cold hands, a pocket full of fossils, a mind full of existential questions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese stories about the passion for nature are an antidote to climate despair.\" - Jean-François Gauvin, Professor of Museum Studies and Scientific Heritage at the Université Laval\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wow! I'm impressed. Stop scrolling on your phones and have a look at this.\" - Tomson Highway, Cree playwright, author, musician\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForeword\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNOVELTIES OF NATURE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe heresy of the stars\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAstronomical leaps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA hardier mulberry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBotanical usefulness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePet pigeons\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrnithological obsessions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo rotting flesh\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeological dating\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eINTERROGATING NATURE \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMemory maps\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndigenous natural history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMore fun than embroidery\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLady botanists of Quebec\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA singular specimen of the potato \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural history at the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 1824 to 1840 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe beknighted collector \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eJames MacPherson Le Moine\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDRAWING NATURE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDrawing dissected mollusc penises\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural history artists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhile her husband mapped the river\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural history artists in the Canadas \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEXPLAINING NATURE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSeasick on the Beagle\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOrigins of the Origin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFeel it struggling between one's fingers \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAlfred Russel Wallace and the theories of evolution\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI laughed til my sides were almost sore\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow the theory of evolution by natural selection was received\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA chaos of fallen rocks \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePassionate opposition in Quebec \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMAPPING NATURE BY BOAT\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNo room for idlers\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaptain Cook in Quebec\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCanada's Arctic Dogsbody \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCaptain Bernier, 1853-1934\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNothing more human than a ship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Canadian Arctic Expedition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEXHIBITING NATURE\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLes simples curieux \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe birth of the great museums\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOtis and the safety elevator\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorld's Fairs\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe calf with two heads\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe first natural science museums in Quebec\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSinking into the mud \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Geological Survey and the Canadian Museum of Nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSlate pencils\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWilliam Dawson and the Redpath Museum in Montreal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSentinel species\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNatural history and the future of nature\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Baraka Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53516060197207,"sku":"9781771863308","price":28.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-calf-with-two-heads-transatlantic-natural-history-in-the-canadas-9781771863308","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}