Visions of the land (Record no. 241252)
| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 02412nam a2200457 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 810.9/355 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Bryson, Michael A., |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Visions of the land |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | Charlottesville : |
| Name of publisher | University Press of Virginia, |
| Year of publication | 2002. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xvii, 228 p. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Series statement | Under the sign of nature |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | "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 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | American literature |
| Topical Term | Environmental literature |
| Topical Term | Literature and science |
| Topical Term | Environmental protection in literature. |
| Topical Term | Wilderness areas in literature. |
| Topical Term | Landscapes in literature. |
| Topical Term | Ecology in literature. |
| Topical Term | Nature in literature. |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10495624 |
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