Visions of the land : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / Michael A. Bryson.
2002
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
Visions of the land : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / Michael A. Bryson.
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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
Description
xvii, 228 pages.
Series
Under the sign of nature.
Formatted Contents Note
"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.
"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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0813921066 alkaline paper
0813921074 paperback alkaline paper
9780813921068
9780813921723 e-book
0813921074 paperback alkaline paper
9780813921068
9780813921723 e-book
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