- Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 228 p.)
- Series Statement
- Under the sign of nature
- Uniform Title
- Visions of the land (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Visions of the land (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- "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.
- LCCN
- 2001007122
- OCLC
- ssj0000542388
- Author
Bryson, Michael A., 1967-
- Title
Visions of the land [electronic resource] : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / Michael A. Bryson.
- Imprint
Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
- Series
Under the sign of nature
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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