Deep things out of darkness : a history of natural history

Anderson, John G. T. 1957- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780520273764 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0520273761 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xvi, 346 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2013.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-318) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction : Adam's task, Job's challenge -- From hunter-gatherers to kings of kings -- A wonderful man : Aristotle and Greek natural history -- The spoils of an empire -- An emperor and his descendants -- New worlds -- Ray, Linnaeus, and the ordering of the world -- Journeys near and far -- Before the Origin -- Forms most beautiful : Darwin -- The geography of nature : Humboldt -- Hearts of light : Wallace and Bates -- Spoils of other empires -- Breadfruit and icebergs -- Naturalists in New England : Thoreau, Agassiz, and Gray -- From Muir and Alexander to Leopold and Carson -- The slow death (and resurrection) of natural history.