Author: American Museum of Natural History
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology, and anthropology.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology, and anthropology.
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology, and anthropology.
Bulletin of the Washburn College Laboratory of Natural History
Author: Washburn College
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History (New York, N.Y.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 281
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Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society
Author: Wisconsin Natural History Society
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
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Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages :
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Comprises articles on geology, paleontology, mammalogy, ornithology, entomology and anthropology.
Ahab's Rolling Sea
Author: Richard J. King
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022651496X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
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.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022651496X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
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.
List of Papers Published in the Bulletin and Memoirs of the American Museum of Natural History
Author: American Museum of Natural History
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Field Museum Of Natural History Bulletin, V. 44
Author: Chicago Natural History Museum
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Languages : en
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Languages : en
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Natural History Bulletin
Author: Grand Canyon Natural History Association
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
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