Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-xiii

Acknowledgments

pp xiv-xiv

List of Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Foreword

pp xvii-xxiv

Introduction

pp 1-4

HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON NATURE

pp 5-6

1 - ‘The Nomination of the Visible’: William Turner's Practice of Natural History

pp 7-16

2 - Early European Perceptions of the Nature of Australia

pp 17-26

3 - Conserving Natural Heritage: Shifting Positions of Culture and Nature

pp 27-36

4 - Three Birds of a Feather – Darwin, Wallace and Attenborough: An Unbroken Tradition of Finding Where the Wild Things Are

pp 37-48

5 - Organising, Naming and Ordering Nature

pp 49-62

6 - Our ‘Great Entail’: Constructing the Cultural Value of the Lake District

pp 63-72

COLLECTING NATURE

pp 73-74

7 - Renaissance Collecting and Understanding of the Natural World

pp 75-88

8 - Botanical Collecting, Herbaria and the Understanding of Nature

pp 89-98

9 - Taxidermy and the Representation of Nature

pp 99-106

10 - The Significance of Natural History Collections in the Twenty-first Century

pp 107-116

INTERPRETING NATURE AND LANDSCAPES

pp 117-118

11 - Changed Attitudes to Nature Reflected in the Transformation of Menageries to Zoos

pp 119-128

12 - Botanic Gardens: Changing Perceptions of Plants

pp 129-140

13 - Shifting Interpretations of the English Lake District

pp 141-148

14 - Facebook Nature: My Generation and Other Animals

pp 149-156

15 - Visual Narratives in Wildlife Film-making

pp 157-164

16 - A History of Half a Century of Wildlife Television and its Impact on Audiences

pp 165-170

17 - Landscape, Nature and the Contemporary Sublime in Illustrated Children's Literature

pp 171-182

CONSERVING NATURE

pp 183-184

18 - The Public Perception of Protected Areas in the UK

pp 185-194

19 - Conservation of Rare Species and Natural Heritage: the Wild and the Tame

pp 195-202