This book features biographical sketches of individuals from Illinois who played significant roles during the Great Rebellion. It highlights the lives and contributions of martyrs and heroes, providing a detailed account of their actions and sacrifices. The reprint maintains the integrity of the original 1865 edition, offering readers a historical perspective on the impact of these figures in the context of the Civil War.
Focusing on the Nevis and Mamore ranges in the Scottish Highlands, this comprehensive guide offers detailed descriptions of various walking routes, from gentle glen strolls to challenging Munro ascents. Authored by an experienced climber and geologist, each route is graded by difficulty and includes sketch maps, altitude profiles, and high-quality photographs. Additionally, readers will find rich information on the area's history, geology, and diverse mountain flora and fauna, making it an invaluable resource for hill walkers.
This book is intended to be the most complete and up-to-date guide to the geology and fossils of the New Forest, providing a wealth of information of interest to both the amateur fossil collector and the professional geologist. It includes some 200 field photographs, palaeogeographic maps, digitised borehole/outcrop logs, and geological cross sections. Also included is a tour of the regional geological evolution of southern England since the Permian Period (-280 million years ago), based on deep boreholes and coastal exposures, including the world-famous Jurassic coast of Dorset and east Devon. The author discusses the petroleum geology of southern England and the New Forest and gives a detailed overview of the stratigraphy of the Hampshire Basin, followed by related aspects of economic geology within this area, including ironstones, freshwater aquifers, geothermal energy, sand, clay and peat resources. Finally, there is an up-to-date and complete account of the principal fossil localities, together with a comprehensive gallery of photographs with accompanying descriptions of the most abundant fossils within the New Forest National Park.
