George William Featherstonhaugh

The First U.S.Government Geologist

Edmund Berkeley, Dorothy Smith Berkeley (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

352 Seiten

1988
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-0365-5 (ISBN)

Infos

"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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.9.1988
• Reihe/Serie: History of American Science & Technology Series
• Zusatzinfo: illustrations, portraits
• Verlagsort: Alabama
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 149 x 236 mm
• Gewicht: 732 g
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• ISBN-10: 0-8173-0365-0 / 0817303650
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8173-0365-5 / 9780817303655
• Zustand: Neuware