Book ID: CBB000530229

The World's First Shell Collecting Guide from 1821: John Mawe's The Voyager's Companion or Shell Collector's Pilot (2003)

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Mawe, John (Author)
Stilwell, Jeffrey D. (Editor)


Western Australian Museum


Publication Date: 2003
Physical Details: xii + 81 pp.; ill.; bibl.
Language: English

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Review Cadée, Gerhard C. (2005) Review of "The World's First Shell Collecting Guide from 1821: John Mawe's The Voyager's Companion or Shell Collector's Pilot". Archives of Natural History (p. 117). unapi

Review Douglas, Kirsty (2004) Review of "The World's First Shell Collecting Guide from 1821: John Mawe's The Voyager's Companion or Shell Collector's Pilot". Historical Records of Australian Science (p. 292). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Dickey, Stephanie S.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Matteo Ruzzon
Di Meo, Alessandro
Vane-Wright, Richard I.
Marta Coloberti
Concepts
Collectors and collecting
Travel; exploration
Natural history
Museums
Shells
Botany
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century, early
17th century
Early modern
Places
Africa
Pacific Northwest (North America)
Melanesia
Galapagos Islands
England
Sicily
Institutions
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Museo di Scienze Naturali di Torino
Museo Calderini
Smithsonian Institution
Università di Pavia
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