George William Featherstonhaugh

The First U.S. Government Geologist

Edmund Berkeley, Dorothy Smith Berkeley (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

376 Seiten

2006
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-5330-8 (ISBN)

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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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	28.2.2006
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations, ports.
Verlagsort	Alabama
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 228 mm
Gewicht	550 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
ISBN-10	0-8173-5330-5 / 0817353305
ISBN-13	978-0-8173-5330-8 / 9780817353308
Zustand	Neuware