Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology /
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| Formato: | Recurso Electrónico livro electrónico |
| Idioma: | inglês |
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Charlottesville :
University Press of Virginia,
2002.
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| Colecção: | Under the sign of nature.
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| Acesso em linha: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sumário:
- "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.