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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children (Classic Reprint) by Charles Kingsley (Paperback / softback, 2015)

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Excerpt from The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby; The Heroes or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children Although at first sight these two books may seem to some to have little in common, the one a plea for the study of Natural Science, the other a fairy tale, yet they are profoundly similar in spirit; for both are founded upon that deep and reverent love of nature which was so essential a part of my father's being. It is a little difficult for the present generation with all its scientific equipment - its nature study, its courses of botany, its Bird and Tree competitions, its cameras, its prizes, its articles on natural history in every parish magazine, its mania for shooting every rare bird, for collecting every rare butterfly, flower, and fern, to their utter destruction, alas! in too many spots - it is difficult, I say, for this generation to believe the complete igrance of cultivated, as well as uncultivated, English men and women on these subjects fifty years ago. For, 'when' Glaucus was written in the winter of 1854-5, the Study of Natural History was an almost unkwn quantity in the lives of all classes in England. Therefore the aquarium which my father started for the amusement of his young children and to further his own scientific observations, during a long absence from Eversley at Torquay on account of my mother's health, was regarded as an extraordinary curiosity. 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 techlogy 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.

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Forgotten Books
ISBN-10
1331437369
ISBN-13
9781331437369
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
Language
English
Topic
Children's Fiction
Author
Charles Kingsley

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Date of Publication
27/09/2015
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
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United States

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