Natural History

Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore

by Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley, the author of The Water-Babies, wrote this little book in 1855 to send Victorians down to the shore with a net and a magnifying glass. It came in the middle of a craze for seaweeds, sea anemones and aquariums that stripped whole stretches of the Devon coast. Kingsley was one of the first clergymen to welcome the Origin.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 3 hours

Where to find it

The Naturalist’s Cabinet

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #695. In the public domain in the United States.