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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 Bibliography of American Natural History  An annotated bibliography of the publications relating to the history  biography  and bibliography of American natural history and its institutions  during colonial times and the pioneer century  which have been published up to 1924

Download or read book A Bibliography of American Natural History An annotated bibliography of the publications relating to the history biography and bibliography of American natural history and its institutions during colonial times and the pioneer century which have been published up to 1924 written by Max Meisel and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Bibliography of American Natural History  An annotated bibliography of the publications relating to the history  biography and bibliography of American natural history and to institutions  during colonial times and the pioneer century  which have been published up to 1924  with a classified subject and geographic index  and a bibliography of biographies

Download or read book A Bibliography of American Natural History An annotated bibliography of the publications relating to the history biography and bibliography of American natural history and to institutions during colonial times and the pioneer century which have been published up to 1924 with a classified subject and geographic index and a bibliography of biographies written by Max Meisel and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subtitle; The role played by the scientific societies; scientific journals; natural history museums and botanic gardens; state geological and natural history surveys; federal exploring expeditions in the rise and progress of American botany, geology, mineralogy, palentology and zoology.

Book Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History

Download or read book Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History written by Society for the Bibliography of Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A LIFE HISTORY STUDY OF THE YELLOW THROAT  GEOTHLYPIS TRICHAS

Download or read book A LIFE HISTORY STUDY OF THE YELLOW THROAT GEOTHLYPIS TRICHAS written by PERSHING BENARD HOFSLUND and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Abbot

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  • Author : Pamela Gilbert
  • Publisher : Merrell
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 136 pages

Download or read book John Abbot written by Pamela Gilbert and published by Merrell. This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abbot's studies of flora and fauna were essential to the European understanding of the natural world in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

Book Travels in Georgia and Florida  L773 74

Download or read book Travels in Georgia and Florida L773 74 written by William Bartram and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Diary of a Journey Through the Carolinas  Georgia  and Florida  1765 66

Download or read book Diary of a Journey Through the Carolinas Georgia and Florida 1765 66 written by John Bartram and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Travels in Georgia and Florida  1773 74

Download or read book Travels in Georgia and Florida 1773 74 written by William Bartram and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the American Philosophical Society

Download or read book Transactions of the American Philosophical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book European Drawings 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : George R. Goldner
  • Publisher : Getty Publications
  • Release : 1992-10-08
  • ISBN : 0892362197
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book European Drawings 2 written by George R. Goldner and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1992-10-08 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Museum's collection of drawings was begun in 1981 with the purchase of a Rembrandt nude and has since become an important repository of European works from the fifteenth through the nineteenth century. As in the first volume devoted to the collection (published in 1988 in English and Italian editions), the text is here organized first by national school, then alphabetically by artist, with individual works arranged chronologically. For each drawing, the authors provide a discussion of the work's style, dating, iconography, and relationship to other works, as well as provenance and a complete bibliography.

Book Travels of William Bartram

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  • Author : William Bartram
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1955-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780486200132
  • Pages : 470 pages

Download or read book Travels of William Bartram written by William Bartram and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1955-01-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of 1791 ed.

Book French Book plates

Download or read book French Book plates written by Walter Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity

Download or read book The Renewal of Pagan Antiquity written by Aby Warburg and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 1999 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by the art historian Aby Warburg, these essays look beyond iconography to more psychological aspects of artistic creation: the conditions under which art was practised; its social and cultural contexts; and its conceivable historical meaning.

Book Reading Law

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  • Author : Antonin Scalia
  • Publisher : West Publishing Company
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780314275554
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Reading Law written by Antonin Scalia and published by West Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book, Scalia and Garner systematically explain all the most important principles of constitutional, statutory, and contractual interpretation in an engaging and informative style with hundreds of illustrations from actual cases. Is a burrito a sandwich? Is a corporation entitled to personal privacy? If you trade a gun for drugs, are you using a gun in a drug transaction? The authors grapple with these and dozens of equally curious questions while explaining the most principled, lucid, and reliable techniques for deriving meaning from authoritative texts. Meanwhile, the book takes up some of the most controversial issues in modern jurisprudence. What, exactly, is textualism? Why is strict construction a bad thing? What is the true doctrine of originalism? And which is more important: the spirit of the law, or the letter? The authors write with a well-argued point of view that is definitive yet nuanced, straightforward yet sophisticated.

Book The Aurelian

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  • Author : Moses Harris
  • Publisher : Gale Ecco, Print Editions
  • Release : 2018-04-25
  • ISBN : 9781385784785
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book The Aurelian written by Moses Harris and published by Gale Ecco, Print Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ Huntington Library N021996 Text is continuous despite pagination. Plate XXXV is dedicated to "Mr. Thos. Greenough". The last plate is XLI. London: printed for the author, 1766. [14],70,73-76,70-71,79-80,75-77, [1]p., plates; 2°