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Of Woodbridge and Hedgely Kindle eBook
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C14941 |
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Books
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Amazon (FBA or FBM) |
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Product Details
Of Woodbridge and Hedgely is an Amazon kindle eBook. It is a literary work examining the phenomena of science denial and propaganda, with a Jane Austen inspired romantic subplot, set in 1820's Gloucestershire, England. It also serves as a basic historical introduction to the state of natural history during the first part of the 19th century (early geology, pre-Darwinian evolution, agricultural science) and includes two mini-lectures focused on James Hutton's Theory of the Earth, and Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia. The book hints at climate security, ecosystem awareness, and resource depletion. It also satirizes prominent climate change deniers (Willie Soon, Bill O'Reily, conservative think tanks, &c.). Reviewers should be interested in science, history, and science-history, environmental politics as well as agricultural/botany topics and Regency romance. Author is very interested in reviews being placed on their Amazon Kindle product page! Posting to Facebook or Twitter is not required, but appreciated. Here is the description of the book: 'Of Woodbridge and Hedgely is a literary examination of the phenomenon of science denial, set in the 1820’s countryside of Gloucester, England. The Industrial Revolution has begun to saturate country, but there are still quaint and naïve pockets like these binary towns whose inhabitants are resistant to change. Alas, the enlightenment is brought before them when a young bachelor and engineer, Thomas Winter – the son of a wealthy industrialist – moves into the area with the intention of applying science to their fields to produce higher crop yields. Further, their local Anglican parson, Jonathan Moore, begins a series of science lectures dedicated to the memory of his recently departed brother, in which the subjects of deep time, uniformitarianism, and plutonism, formulated by pioneering geologist James Hutton, are introduced alongside pre-Darwinian evolution. Such is taken rather poorly by the towns' Particular Baptists, led by the preacher George Edwards and funded by the recently wealthy Henry Wyatt, who conspire against these scientific men by way of news propaganda, the latter motivated by romantic adversity.'
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