Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390384 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-09
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 144 pages

Nature, June 7, 2007
'... superbly written... accessible... strongly recommended to
historians of science, lay naturalists and any reader interested in
Scottish life and history.'

Scotsman, June 9, 2007
'... eminently readable...the most rounded portrait of Miller
that's been written in recent times... handsomely illustrated...excellent
value for money...'

Synopsis
Hugh Miller was born in 1802 in Cromarty, Ross-shire. He started his working life as a stonemason's apprentice; he later became a social commentator and crusader. His was a household name in his lifetime, not only in Scotland but across the English-speaking world. With the benefit of recent research for the 2002 conferences, this biography does full justice to the self-educated man, a figure of renown in the 19th century, whose literary genius and scientific acumen still resonates in the 21st.