The Library of John Locke

by John Harrison, Peter Laslett

Second edition. An extensive portion of Locke's library was recovered in 1950 along with a master catalogue of the library. This volume describes Locke and his collecting from the 1650's to 1704 and then describes the 3000 volumes owned by Locke. xii, 313 pages. cloth, dust jacket.. tall 8vo..

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1971

About the author

There are more than 16 authors in the GoodReads database with this name. This is John^Harrison (adventurer, writer, broadcaster & lecturer), . This profile may contain books from multiple authors of this name.

After hitch-hiking from London to Johannesburg before he was 21, and two further years hitching around every country in South and Central America, John never really shook off the travel bug. He studied Latin American History and Sociology at university before becoming a language teacher in Spain and Portugal. He then worked as a tour guide for Journey Latin America, taking small groups to South America, and bringing most of them back. It was during this time that he started making his own expeditions – especially to the Amazon. A lover of wilderness, he has also canoed in Africa, Europe and North America.
‘Up the Creek: an Amazon Adventure’, originally published in 1986, and was reissued in February 2012, was an account of one of these journeys, and ‘Into the Amazon: an incredible story of survival in the jungle' was published in 2011.
The film ‘John Harrison Explorer’ was made for the ‘Voyager’ series by National Geographic in 1991, about a canoe journey on the Rio Ximim-Ximim in Brazil.
John has written and presented several radio programmes for the BBC, and contributed articles to many magazines and newspapers.
He has entertained audiences with more than 200 lectures over the last 25 years, including four talks at the Royal Geographical Society in London, (where he has also chaired three seminars on tropical forest expedition logistics), plus motivational seminars and visits to schools and Luncheon Clubs. He has also been an on-board speaker for the Cunard, Silversea, Seabourn, Holland America and Fred Olsen cruise lines.
He lives in Bristol in the UK with his wife and two children, where he has his own construction company.

Reviews

[Alan Johnson]

Although not identified as such, the ISBN number in this entry references the Second Edition, published in 1971. This is the edition (the last one published) that I was able to purchase through an out-of-print vendor listed on Amazon.com in September 2013. For those interested in John Locke's philosophical interests and background, this work is invaluable. I have used it frequently in my research of seventeenth-century intellectual history. Peter Laslett's introductory essay and the scholarly apparatus of the book are excellent. Laslett makes it clear here, and in other writings, that we do not know--and likely will never know--all the books that Locke owned or borrowed; the catalogue printed in this volume is necessarily incomplete. Nevertheless, this is a fascinating introduction to the reading tastes of the man who, perhaps more than any other, influenced Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and many other eighteenth-century American Founders.