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Visions of the land

by Bryson, Michael A.,
Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.
Series: Under the sign of nature Published by : University Press of Virginia, (Charlottesville :) Physical details: xvii, 228 p.
Subject(s): American literature -- History and criticism. | Environmental literature -- History and criticism. | Literature and science -- United States -- History. | Environmental protection in literature. | Wilderness areas in literature. | Landscapes in literature. | Ecology in literature. | Nature in literature. | Electronic books.
Year: 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-214) and index.

"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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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