The New Naturalists: The New Naturalist

by Marren, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780007197156
• ISBN10: 0007197152
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-31
• Publisher: Harper Uk

Summary

"This edition of The New Naturalists brings the behind-the-bookshelf story of the New Naturalist Library right up to date: who the authors were and what they did; how each title was conceived and received; the much admired jackets; and the trials, tribulations and triumphs of what has been described as the most significant and long-running natural history series in the world."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(3)
Author's Foreword	10	(2)
Acknowledgements	12	(2)
Author's Foreword to the Second Edition	14	(1)
A New Natural History	15	(8)
A Lunch and its Consequences	23	(27)
Introducing the New Naturalist editors: Julian Huxley, James Fisher, John Gilmour and Dudley Stamp
Planning the series
Commissioning the titles
A New Naturalist Board meeting
`The Full Beauty Of Their Natural Colours...'	50	(18)
Collins and Adprint
Eric Hosking and his photographers
Illustrating the books
Some photographic highlights
Colour and critics
The Graphic Image: the New Naturalist Dust Jackets	68	(28)
How the jackets are printed
Background: Clifford and Rosemary Ellis
C & RE: the Ellis jackets
The Gillmor jackets
E.B. Ford and Butterflies	96	(26)
The life and opinions of E.B. Ford
Writing and illustrating Butterflies
The bestseller
Moths and afterwards
A Question of Style	122	(29)
The Old Masters: the first dozen books
National Parks and the regional books
Co-authorship
The evolving series
Naturalists All	151	(29)
New Naturalist childhood
Teachers and moss-gatherers
World adventurers
Fraser Darling and Morton Boyd: 60 years of Scottish natural history
The Pursuit of a Species: the Monographs	180	(34)
Monography
The making of a natural history classic
The sad story of Ants
The special volumes
An eye for a bird
The scientists take over
Postscript: My First Book by Miriam Rothschild FRS
The Also-rans and the Books-that-never-were	214	(15)
The missing masterpiece
Molluscs, marshes and other gaps
The New Naturalist journal
The Country Naturalist and the Countryside Series
The Fontana paperbacks
The Bloomsbury hardbacks
Crisis and Recovery	229	(6)
Nature Conservation and the New Natural History	235	(10)
Ten Years On	245	(30)
The New Naturalists in 2005
Writing a New Naturalist
The place-books (plus some animals)
An author explains . . .
The tale of a book
New Naturalist jackets 1995--2005
Selected Bibliography	275	(68)
Appendices
1 An updated New Naturalist Biography	279	(32)
2 An updated New Naturalist Bibliography and Print-runs	311	(10)
3 A New Collector's Guide	321	(20)
4 The Australian Naturalist Library	341	(2)
Notes	343	(7)
Postscript	350	(6)
The Big Bang Theory by John Sykes
Index	356