This collection aligns with significant historical and cultural movements, including the burgeoning public interest in natural history and the evolution of landscape gardening into a form of high art.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.

This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.

Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original.

About the Book Books about Ethnic Studies consider issues relating to the history of race and ethnicity within broader "mainstream" populations.