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

Main Author: Bryson, Michael A., 1967-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
Series:Under the sign of nature
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10495624
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300 |a xvii, 228 p. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index. 
505 0 |a "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. 
650 0 |a American literature  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Environmental literature  |x History and criticism. 
650 0 |a Literature and science  |x History.  |z United States 
650 0 |a Environmental protection in literature. 
650 0 |a Wilderness areas in literature. 
650 0 |a Landscapes in literature. 
650 0 |a Ecology in literature. 
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