Impressions of Great Naturalists
Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
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Page : 290 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Naturalists
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Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 33,50 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Naturalists
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Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 35,58 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Naturalists
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Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618082407
Wallace explores in exciting detail the rivalry between the paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Onthniel Charles Marsh--19th-century America's major scientific feud. Cope and Marsh independently discovered hundreds of dinosaur fossils on the high plains when the Indian wars were in full swing.
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Page : 454 pages
File Size : 16,37 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Geology
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Page : 542 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Best books
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Author : Darrin Lunde
Publisher : Crown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 23,21 MB
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307464326
Winner of the inaugural Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize A captivating account of how Theodore Roosevelt’s lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America’s wildlife conservation movement and determined his legacy as a founding father of today’s museum naturalism. No U.S. president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than is Theodore Roosevelt—prodigious hunter, tireless adventurer, and ardent conservationist. We think of him as a larger-than-life original, yet in The Naturalist, Darrin Lunde has firmly situated Roosevelt’s indomitable curiosity about the natural world in the tradition of museum naturalism. As a child, Roosevelt actively modeled himself on the men (including John James Audubon and Spencer F. Baird) who pioneered this key branch of biology by developing a taxonomy of the natural world—basing their work on the experiential study of nature. The impact that these scientists and their trailblazing methods had on Roosevelt shaped not only his audacious personality but his entire career, informing his work as a statesman and ultimately affecting generations of Americans’ relationship to this country’s wilderness. Drawing on Roosevelt’s diaries and travel journals as well as Lunde’s own role as a leading figure in museum naturalism today, The Naturalist reads Roosevelt through the lens of his love for nature. From his teenage collections of birds and small mammals to his time at Harvard and political rise, Roosevelt’s fascination with wildlife and exploration culminated in his triumphant expedition to Africa, a trip which he himself considered to be the apex of his varied life. With narrative verve, Lunde brings his singular experience to bear on our twenty-sixth president’s life and constructs a perceptively researched and insightful history that tracks Roosevelt’s maturation from exuberant boyhood hunter to vital champion of serious scientific inquiry.
Author : Minnie Earl Sears
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Page : 1980 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Essays
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Includes "List of books indexed" (published also separately)
Author : Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,99 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780761989479
A detailed account of the colourful histories of 13 visionary museum innovators, who transformed the 19th-century collections of curios into institutions that inform and instruct.
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Page : 712 pages
File Size : 50,96 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Electronic journals
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Author : American Museum of Natural History
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Page : 700 pages
File Size : 28,34 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Natural history
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