Philip Henry Gossea??s detailed watercolors of Alabamaa??s native insects and plants represent a landmark in the annals of American natural history. Offered for the first time are the complete full-color illustrations from Gossea??s Entomologia Alabamensis, along with a biographical essay placing Gossea??s work in the context of his long and fruitful life. A Born in 1810 in Worcester, England, the young Philip Henry Gosse developed a passion for the natural world. Having learned the basics of miniature portraiture from his father, Gosse quickly took for his artistic subjects the flourishing marine life he discovered along the English coast. In May, 1838, Gosse took a teaching job in Dallas County, Alabama. For the next eight months he collected the insect specimens that he would preserve in the beautifully detailed watercolors of Entomologia Alabamensis. In addition, he composed a highly personalized chronology of his life in a frontier culture, published eventually as Letters...

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