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A DESCRIPTION OF THE MANGOSTAN AND THE BREAD-FRUIT: THE FIRST, ESTEEMED ONE OF THE MOST DELICIOUS; THE OTHER, THE MOST USEFUL OF ALL THE FRUITS IN THE EAST INDIES. BY JOHN ELLIS, ESQ. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND UPSAL; AGENT FOR DOMINICA. TO WHICH ARE ADDED, DIRECTIONS TO VOYAGERS, FOR BRINGING OVER THESE AND OTHER VEGETABLE PRODUCTIONS, WHICH WOULD BE EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL TO THE INHABITANTS OF OUR WEST INDIA ISLANDS. WITH FIGURES.

John Ellis

Published: 1775

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Interposed between the natural world in all its diversity and the edited form in which we encounter it in literature, imagery and the museum, lie the multiple practices of the naturalists in selecting, recording and preserving the specimens from which our world view is to be reconstituted. The factors that weigh at every stage are here dissected, analysed and set within a historical narrative that spans more than five centuries. During that era, every aspect evolved and changed, as engagement with nature moved from a speculative pursuit heavily influenced by classical scholarship to a systematic science, drawing on advanced theory and technology. Far from being neutrally objective, the process of representing nature is shown as fraught with constraint and compromise. With a Foreword by Sir David Attenborough Contributors are: Marie Addyman, Peter Barnard, Paul D. Brinkman, Ian Convery, Peter Davis, Felix Driver, Florike Egmond, Annemarie Jordan Gschwend, Geoff Hancock, Stephen Harris, Hanna Hodacs, Stuart Houston, Dominik Huenniger, Rob Huxley, Charlie Jarvis, Malgosia Nowak-Kemp, Shepard Krech III, Mark Lawley, Arthur Lucas, Marco Masseti, Geoff Moore, Pat Morris, Charles Nelson, Robert Peck, Helen Scales, Han F. Vermeulen, and Glyn Williams.