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Lessons for young people on a wide variety of topics, from whaling and seashells to painting on glass and the origin of navigation, are presented in fictional conversations of an eighteenth-century family.
Publish Date
1995
Publisher
Colleagues Press,
Michigan State University Press
Language
English
Pages
171
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xix-xxi).
Based on the original two-volume version from 1794, originally titled: Mental improvement : or, the beauties and wonders of nature and art, conveyed in a series of instructive conversations.
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