Book
Deep things out of darkness : a history of natural history / John G. T. Anderson.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520273764 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0520273761 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Physical Description: 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. |
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| Subject: | Natural history > History. Naturalists > History. Natural history. Naturalists. |
| Genre: | History. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Kirtland Community College Library | QH 15 .A53 2013 | 30775305463292 | General Collection | Available | - |