Visions of the land: science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology
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1. Verfasser: Bryson, Michael A. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Charlottesville University Press of Virginia 2002
Schriftenreihe:Under the sign of nature
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index
"I saw visions": John Charles Fremont and the explorer"-scientist as nineteenth-century hero -- "The evidence of my ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic sojourn -- "A strange and terrible woman land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's scientific utopia -- "A unit of country well defined in nature": John Wesley Powell and the scientific management of the American West -- "The earth is the common home of all": Susan Fenimore Cooper's investigations of a settled landscape -- "The relentless drive of life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's reformulation of science and nature
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 228 p.)
ISBN:0813921724
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