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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
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Charles Kingsley's *Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore* is a Victorian natural history work exploring marine life and the study of the seashore. It suits readers interested in the history of science, natural history, and nineteenth-century attitudes toward the natural world.
Charles Kingsley
Charles Kingsley was an English clergyman, social reformer, historian, novelist and poet. A broad church priest of the Church of England, he is particularly associated with Christian socialism, Anti-Catholicism, the working men's college, and forming labour cooperatives, which failed, but encouraged later working reforms. He is known for his novels Yeast (1848), Alton Locke (1850), Hypatia (1853), Westward Ho! (1855), The Water-Babies (1863), and Hereward the Wake (1866).
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