A Journal of Travels into the Arkansas Territory during the Yeal 1819 (66) (American Exploration and Travel Series) - Softcover

Nuttall, Thomas; Lottinville, Savoie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0806142774 ISBN 13: 9780806142777

Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012

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Reseña del editor:

This is the famous naturalist Thomas Nuttall’s only surviving complete journal of his American scientific explorations. The account follows Nuttall’s route from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, down the Ohio River to its mouth, then down the Mississippi River to the Arkansas Post, and up the Arkansas River with a side trip to the Red River. It is filled with valuable details on the plants, animals, and geology of the region, as well as penetrating observations of the resident Native tribes, the military establishment at Fort Smith, the arrival of the first governor of Arkansas Territory, and the beginnings of white settlement.

Originally published in 1980 by the University of Oklahoma Press, this fine edited version of Nuttall’s work boasts a valuable introduction, notes, maps, and bibliography by Savoie Lottinville.

Biografía del autor:

Thomas Nuttall was a self-educated botanist who came to the United States from Liverpool in 1808 at the age of twenty-two. Nuttall made several scientific expeditions in America during the first half of the nineteenth century. He was recognized in his time for his botanical discoveries, served for many years as a lecturer in natural science and as curator of the Cambridge Botanic Garden at Harvard, and published several books.

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• Verlag: University of Oklahoma Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0806142774
• ISBN 13: 9780806142777
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 390