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Author | : American Museum of Natural History |
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Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 1886 |
Genre | : Anthropology |
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Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology, and anthropology.
Author | : Siam Society |
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Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Author | : Richard J. King |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2019-11-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 022651496X |
Although Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing—or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Dillard avers Moby-Dick is the “best book ever written about nature,” and nearly the entirety of the story is set on the waves, with scarcely a whiff of land. In fact, Ishmael’s sea yarn is in conversation with the nature writing of Emerson and Thoreau, and Melville himself did much more than live for a year in a cabin beside a pond. He set sail: to the far remote Pacific Ocean, spending more than three years at sea before writing his masterpiece in 1851. A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab’s Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville’s novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction. King then climbs to the crow’s nest, setting Melville in the context of the American perception of the ocean in 1851—at the very start of the Industrial Revolution and just before the publication of On the Origin of Species. King compares Ahab’s and Ishmael’s worldviews to how we see the ocean today: an expanse still immortal and sublime, but also in crisis. And although the concept of stewardship of the sea would have been entirely foreign, if not absurd, to Melville, King argues that Melville’s narrator Ishmael reveals his own tendencies toward what we would now call environmentalism. Featuring a coffer of illustrations and an array of interviews with contemporary scientists, fishers, and whale watch operators, Ahab’s Rolling Sea offers new insight not only into a cherished masterwork and its author but also into our evolving relationship with the briny deep—from whale hunters to climate refugees.
Author | : Jim Lacefield |
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Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Geochronometry |
ISBN | : 9780976930419 |
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Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Military history |
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Author | : Natural History Society of New Brunswick |
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Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Natural history |
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Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1915 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : South Dakota. Geological and Natural History Survey |
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Total Pages | : 572 |
Release | : 1914 |
Genre | : Geology |
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Author | : Dave Currie |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 648 |
Release | : 2019-10-15 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1501738038 |
Take this book with you on your next trip to the Bahamas or the Turks and Caicos Islands or keep it close to hand in your travel library. The Natural History of the Bahamas offers the most comprehensive coverage of the terrestrial and coastal flora and fauna on the islands of the Bahamas archipelago, as well as of the region's natural history and ecology. Readers will gain an appreciation for the importance of conserving the diverse lifeforms on these special Caribbean islands. A detailed introduction to the history, geology, and climate of the islands. Beautifully illustrated, with more than seven hundred color photographs showcasing the diverse plants, fungi, and animals found on the Bahamian Archipelago.
Author | : State Historical and Natural History Society of Colorado |
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Total Pages | : 92 |
Release | : 1920 |
Genre | : Colorado |
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