Naturalists of the Frontier [Second Edition] - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naturalists of the Frontier [Second Edition] write by Dr. Samuel Wood Geiser. This book was released on 2018-03-12. Naturalists of the Frontier [Second Edition] available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This acclaimed study of the history of scientific exploration in the Southwest from renowned biologist Dr. Samuel Wood Geiser, first published in its present revised edition in 1948, would be of interest to many types of readers: For those who love stories, of adventure and struggle, it narrates the lives and varying fates of men who lived under strange and difficult conditions, and who met those conditions, some with heroic resolution and resourcefulness, some with fainting and failure, many with a mixture of both. These lives are presented, not in the style of the popular semi-fiction of the day, but with such accuracy as only a thorough study of many sorts of records makes possible; yet, too, with sympathy and insight into human nature throughout. For those interested in, frontier life and frontier stories this book presents an unwonted aspect of that life: the struggle for culture and for science under frontier conditions: a struggle no less heroic than that of the fighting pioneer. Naturalists of the Frontier realistically portrays the hard material conditions of frontier life, yet these are illumined by the ideals of the men who subdued those conditions. The student of the early history of the Southwest, and particularly of Texas, will find here presented unusual and significant aspects of that history. For the historian of science this book pictures the beginnings of science in a new country; it shows what science must be under frontier conditions—an examination of the resources of the region, rather than a study of underlying problems.
Naturalists of the Frontier
Naturalists of the Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naturalists of the Frontier write by Samuel Wood Geiser. This book was released on 1929. Naturalists of the Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Naturalists of the Frontier
Naturalists of the Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naturalists of the Frontier write by . This book was released on 1929. Naturalists of the Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
California's Frontier Naturalists
California's Frontier Naturalists - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook California's Frontier Naturalists write by Richard G Beidleman. This book was released on 2006-03-02. California's Frontier Naturalists available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book chronicles the fascinating story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to California’s spectacular natural bounty over the decades from 1786, when the La Pérouse Expedition arrived at Monterey, to the Death Valley expedition in 1890–91, the proclaimed "end" of the American frontier. Richard G. Beidleman’s engaging and marvelously detailed narrative describes these botanists, zoologists, geologists, paleontologists, astronomers, and ethnologists as they camped under stars and faced blizzards, made discoveries and amassed collections, kept journals and lost valuables, sketched flowers and landscapes, recorded comets and native languages. He weaves together the stories of their lives, their demanding fieldwork, their contributions to science, and their exciting adventures against the backdrop of California and world history. California's Frontier Naturalists covers all the major expeditions to California as well as individual and institutional explorations, introducing naturalists who accompanied boundary surveys, joined federal railroad parties, traveled with river topographical expeditions, accompanied troops involved with the Mexican War, and made up California’s own geological survey. Among these early naturalists are famous names—David Douglas, Thomas Nuttall, John Charles Fremont, William Brewer—as well as those who are less well-known, including Paolo Botta, Richard Hinds, and Sara Lemmon.
Naturalists of the Frontier
Naturalists of the Frontier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naturalists of the Frontier write by Samuel Wood Geiser. This book was released on 1930. Naturalists of the Frontier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
