Bryson, Michael A. <br/><br/>
Visions of the Land :  Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (250 pages) 
 - Under the Sign of Nature Series .
 - Under the Sign of Nature Series .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813921723 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>American literature -- History and criticism.<br/>Environmental literature -- History and criticism.<br/>Literature and science -- United States -- History.<br/>Environmental protection in literature.<br/>Wilderness areas in literature.<br/>Landscapes in literature.<br/>Ecology in literature.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PS169.E25 -- B79 2002eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>810.9355