Visions of the Land : Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- ▪Part 1▪: Narratives of Exploration and the Scientist-Hero -- Chapter One: "I Saw Visions": John Charles Frémont and the Explorer-Scientist as Nineteenth-Century Hero -- Chapter Two: "The Evidence of My Ruin": Richard Byrd's Antarctic Sojourn -- ▪Part 2▪: Imagined Communities and the Scientific Management of Nature -- Chapter Three: "A Strange and Terrible Woman Land": Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Scientific Utopia -- Chapter Four: "A Unit of Country Well Defined in Nature": John Wesley Powell and the Scientific Management of the American West -- ▪Part 3▪: Nature's Identity and the Critique of Science -- Chapter Five: "The Earth Is the Common Home of All": Susan Fenimore Cooper's Investigations of a Settled Landscape -- Chapter Six: "The Relentless Drive of Life": Rachel Carson's and Loren Eiseley's Reformulation of Science and Nature -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature.

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