Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology /

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第一著者: Bryson, Michael A., 1967-
団体著者: ebrary, Inc
フォーマット: 電子媒体 eBook
言語:英語
出版事項: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
シリーズ:Under the sign of nature.
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目次:
  • "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.