Eighteenth-Century Naturalists of Hudson Bay

Provides a look at the achievements of a group of early naturalists who studied weather and natural history at isolated fur-trading posts on Hudson Bay. This book demonstrates that Hudson Bay is the second largest site of bird species named by Linnaeus and reproduces some of George Edwards' colour paintings of these species.

• | : Stuart Houston, Tim Ball, Mary Houston
• | Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 23, 2003
• | Country of Publication: Canada
• | Number of Pages: 360 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 0773522859
• | ISBN-13: 9780773522855