The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842
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"Charlotte Porter offers vivid details on the physical and professional trials of field naturalists, handicapped by lack of access to libraries and collections and held in deep disdain by the eastern savants, who more and more scorned their publications, rejected their species-splitting taxonomy, excluded them from the review process, and relegated them to the status of hirelings. Porter draws a poignant picture of the treatment thus accorded Titian...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0817302808
ISBN13:9780817302801
Release Date:July 1986
Publisher:University Alabama Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.35 lbs.
Dimensions:6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Grade 12 to Postsecondary
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