George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S.Government Geologist (History of American Science & Technology Series) - Hardcover

Berkeley, Edmund; Berkeley, Dorothy Smith

 
9780817303655: George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S.Government Geologist (History of American Science & Technology Series)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0817303650 ISBN 13: 9780817303655
Verlag: The University of Alabama Press, 1988

Inhaltsangabe

"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography."
—Choice

"For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) is both essential and hard to obtain. He was the force behind the first railroad in America; a pioneer in scientific agriculture; an essayist, poet, and novelist; a lobbyist; a linguist; and a daring diplomat who saved the king and queen of France from certain death. [Yet] his strongest tie was with the geology. [This] biography is interesting, well researched and well written. It is a balanced study of a complex man who did so much work and generated such controversy."
—Earth Sciences History

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"For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) is both essential and hard to obtain. He was the force behind the first railroad in America; a pioneer in scientific agriculture; an essayist, poet, and novelist; a lobbyist; a linguist; and a daring diplomat who saved the king and queen of France from certain death. [Yet] his strongest tie was with the geology. [This] biography is interesting, well researched and well written. It is a balanced study of a complex man who did so much work and generated such controversy." --Earth Sciences History

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"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography." --Choice "For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) is both essential and hard to obtain. He was the force behind the first railroad in America; a pioneer in scientific agriculture; an essayist, poet, and novelist; a lobbyist; a linguist; and a daring diplomat who saved the king and queen of France from certain death. [Yet] his strongest tie was with the geology. [This] biography is interesting, well researched and well written. It is a balanced study of a complex man who did so much work and generated such controversy." --Earth Sciences History

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Verlag
The University of Alabama Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1988
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0817303650
ISBN 13 
9780817303655
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
352
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