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Author Bryson, Michael A., 1967-

Title Visions of the land : science, literature, and the American environment from the era of exploration to the age of ecology / Michael A. Bryson.

Publication Info. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002.
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 228 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Under the sign of nature
Under the sign of nature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-214) and index.
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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject American literature -- History and criticism.
American literature.
Environmental literature -- History and criticism.
Environmental literature.
Literature and science -- United States -- History.
Literature and science.
United States.
History.
Environmental protection in literature.
Environmental protection in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Wilderness areas in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Landscapes in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Ecology in literature.
Nature in literature.
Nature in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Bryson, Michael A., 1967- Visions of the land. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 2002 (DLC) 2001007122
ISBN 9780813921723 (electronic book)
0813921724 (electronic book)
0813921066 (alkaline paper)
0813921074 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
9780813921068
9780813921075

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