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Book Andr   Michaux and the Discovery of Magnolia Macrophylla in North Carolina

Download or read book Andr Michaux and the Discovery of Magnolia Macrophylla in North Carolina written by Charles B. Williams and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Andr   Michaux in North America

Download or read book Andr Michaux in North America written by André Michaux and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michaux’s work to modern readers and scientists Known to today’s biologists primarily as the “Michx,” at the end of more than 700 plant names, André Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des chênes de l’Amérique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the first account of all plants known in eastern North America. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, André Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785–1797 is the first complete English edition of Michaux’s American journals. This copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the many hardships—debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild animals, even shipwreck—that Michaux endured on the North American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of Madagascar.

Book Journeys Through Paradise

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gail Fishman
  • Publisher : University Press of Florida
  • Release : 2017-03-22
  • ISBN : 0813063248
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Journeys Through Paradise written by Gail Fishman and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2017-03-22 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is for those inhabited by the same desires that drove the early naturalists afield, who yearn to know wilder territory. We read it voraciously, as if in the understanding of how they loved we might also begin to do so, as if in the reliving of their lives we might recapture some vanishing part of the human psyche that must know wilderness."-- Janisse Ray, author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood "Like the naturalists she profiles, Gail Fishman takes us on an odyssey through a time when the extraordinary diversity of the southeastern United States was first being explored and described. . . . Entertaining."-- Steve Gatewood, executive director, Society for Ecological Restoration, Tucson "Fishman modernizes the men and their explorations by retracing the terrain that they explored, wrote about, drew and painted. The result is an intriguing and appealing lesson in biographical and scientific history and a literary reading experience that will appeal to a wide audience."-- William W. Rogers, professor of history emeritus, Florida State University Following the original steps of pioneering naturalists, Gail Fishman profiles thirteen men who explored North America’s southeastern wilderness between 1715 and the 1940s, including John James Audubon, Mark Catesby, John and William Bartram, John Muir, and Alvan Wentworth Chapman. The book is also Fishman’s personal travelogue as she experiences the landscape through their eyes and describes the changes that have occurred along the region’s trails and streams. Traveling by horseback, boat, and foot, these naturalists--dedicated to their task and blessed with passion and insatiable curiosity--explored gentle mountains, regal forests, and shadowy swamps. Their interests ran deeper than merely cataloging plants and animals. They identified the continent’s foundations and the habits and histories of the flora and fauna of the landscape. Fishman tells us who they were and what compelled them to pursue their work. She evaluates what they accomplished and measures their importance, also pointing out their strengths and failings. And she paints an engaging picture of what America was like at the time. Fishman combines natural history and American history into a series of portraits that recapture the American Southeast as it was seen by those who first tramped through the wilderness and whose voices from the beginning urged the preservation of wild places. Gail Fishman, a freelance writer who lives in Tallahassee, has worked for the Florida Defenders of the Environment, The Nature Conservancy, and the National Audubon Society. She is a volunteer for the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge and helped form the St. Marks Refuge Association.

Book A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America

Download or read book A Natural History of Trees of Eastern and Central North America written by Donald Culross Peattie and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1991 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed handbook giving clear descriptions and full historical information about the trees that grow in North America--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Book Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club

Download or read book Journal of the Southern Appalachian Botanical Club written by Earl Lemley Core and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North American Sylva  Or  A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States  Canada  and Nova Scotia  Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts and Their Introduction Into Commerce

Download or read book The North American Sylva Or A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States Canada and Nova Scotia Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts and Their Introduction Into Commerce written by François André Michaux and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stanley

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  • Author : Joyce Handsel
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2016-09-19
  • ISBN : 1439657823
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Stanley written by Joyce Handsel and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stanley Creek community, named for a gold prospector, began in the mid-1700s as one of the earliest settlements in Gaston County. Gold was mined in the area until the California Gold Rush. Among the prominent people visiting the area was André Michaux, botanist and adventurer, who discovered the tree he named Magnolia macrophylla. In 1860, the Wilmington, Charlotte & Rutherford Railroad came through the area on land owned by the Brevard family. Brevard's train depot was the primary rallying point for soldiers leaving for the Civil War and for sending supplies to troops. Around the end of the 1890s, Stanley Creek Cotton Mills was organized, beginning the textile era, which continued until 2000. Two Stanley men patented a dyeing machine, and Gaston County Dyeing Machine Company was born. Many of Stanley's men went to fight in the nation's wars, some losing their lives. Several athletes went on to major-league baseball, and a nationally recognized sculptor lived in Stanley.

Book The North American Sylva

Download or read book The North American Sylva written by François André Michaux and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North American Sylva  Or  A Description of the Forest Trees  of the United States  Canada and Nova Scotia

Download or read book The North American Sylva Or A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States Canada and Nova Scotia written by François André Michaux and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North American Sylva  Or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States  Canada and Nova Scotia  Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts  Etc  To which is Added a Description of the Most Useful of the European Forest trees  Translated from the French by A  L  Hillhouse

Download or read book The North American Sylva Or a Description of the Forest Trees of the United States Canada and Nova Scotia Considered Particularly with Respect to Their Use in the Arts Etc To which is Added a Description of the Most Useful of the European Forest trees Translated from the French by A L Hillhouse written by François André MICHAUX and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The North America Sylva  Or  A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States  Canada and Nova Scotia

Download or read book The North America Sylva Or A Description of the Forest Trees of the United States Canada and Nova Scotia written by François André Michaux and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jos  phine and the Arts of the Empire

Download or read book Jos phine and the Arts of the Empire written by Eleanor P. DeLorme and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated book reveals how Joséphine, Napoléon Bonaparte’s empress, shaped the arts of early nineteenth-century France and beyond. Her incomparable sense of style, her passion for collecting, her love of gardens, and her commissions of works by major artists such as Antonio Canova, Jacques-Louis David, Pierre-Paul Prod’hon, and Pierre-Joseph Redouté set the standard for a new aesthetic. On these pages the opulence of Salon culture is set against the tumultuous era of Revolution and Empire, romance and tragedy—a world in which Joséphine rose to her own momentous role in history with singular grace and elegance.

Book The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature Relating to Vascular Plants

Download or read book The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature Relating to Vascular Plants written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Agricultural History

Download or read book Agricultural History written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: