Description
This history is the first to detail the lives, adventures, and discoveries of pioneering American naturalists such as Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, Martha Maxwell, Spencer Baird, Asa Gray, John Torrey, Florence bailey, John Burroughs, and John Muir. From discovering new species to discovering prehistoric fossils, Early American Naturalists celebrates these intrepid trailblazers who boldly navigated and documented the untrammeled, awe-inspiring frontier west of the Mississippi.
Author: John Moring
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 03/25/2005
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.62w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9781589791831
ISBN10: 1589791835
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Expeditions & Discoveries
- History | United States | 19th Century
Author: John Moring
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Published: 03/25/2005
Pages: 260
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.62w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9781589791831
ISBN10: 1589791835
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
- History | Expeditions & Discoveries
- History | United States | 19th Century
About the Author
John Moring (1946-2002) was professor of zoology at the University of Maine and author of Men with Sand: Great Explorers of the American West.