Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology
by
Bryson, Michael A., 1967-
Title
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Visions of the land science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology
Author
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Bryson, Michael A., 1967-
Personal Author
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Bryson, Michael A., 1967-
Publication Information
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Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
Physical Description
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xvii, 228 p.
Series
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Under the sign of nature
Under the sign of nature.
Contents
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"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.
Subject Term
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American literature -- History and criticism.
Environmental literature -- History and criticism.
Literature and science -- United States -- History.
Environmental protection in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Genre
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Electronic books.
Added Corporate Author
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ProQuest (Firm)
Electronic Access
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| Shelf Number | Item Barcode | Shelf Location | Shelf Location | Holding Information |
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| PS169 .E25 B79 2002 | 1099427-1001 | Ebook Central | Ebook Central | |