Madame How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley (English) Paperback Book

Description: Madame How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley Did you ever wish you knew how to explain natural phenomena such as earthquakes and volcanoes to your children? Search no more, this book has all the answers (at least all the ones that were known in 1869) and gives them in a pedagogic, etc.. Introduces children to geology through conversations about earthquakes, volcanoes, coral reefs, and so on. Encourages children to wonder about the distinctive features of the landscape about them and how they came to be that way. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) was an English priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, particularly associated with the West Country and northeast Hampshire. Kingsleys interest in history is shown in several of his writings, including The Heroes, a childrens book about Greek mythology, and several historical novels, of which the best known are Hypatia, Hereward the Wake and Westward Ho! His concern for social reform is illustrated in his great classic, The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (which won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1963) a kind of fairytale about a boy chimney sweep, which retained its popularity well into the 20th century. Furthermore in The Water-Babies he developed in this literary form something of a purgatory, which runs counter to his "Anti-Roman" theology. As a novelist his chief power lay in his descriptive faculties. The descriptions of South American scenery in Westward Ho!, of the Egyptian desert in Hypatia, of the North Devon scenery in Two Years Ago, are brilliant; and the American scenery is even more vividly and more truthfully described when he had seen it only by the eye of his imagination than in his work At Last, which was written after he had visited the tropics. His sympathy with children taught him how to secure their interests. His version of the old Greek stories entitled The Heroes, and Water-babies and Madam How and Lady Why, in which he deals with popular natural history, take high rank among books for children. Kingsley also wrote poetry and political articles, as well as several volumes of sermons. His argument, in print, with John Henry Newman, accusing him of untruthfulness and deceit, prompted the latter to write his Apologia Pro Vita Sua. He also wrote a preface to the 1859 edition of Henry Brookes book The Fool of Quality in which he defends their shared belief in universal salvation. Kingsley coined the term pteridomania in his 1855 book Glaucus, or the Wonders of the Shore. Details ISBN1495341836 Author Charles Kingsley Short Title MADAME HOW & LADY WHY Pages 156 Language English ISBN-10 1495341836 ISBN-13 9781495341830 Media Book Format Paperback Residence ENK Birth 1819 Death 1875 Year 2014 Publication Date 2014-01-27 Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Audience Children / Juvenile We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:93175278;

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