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Item Details
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GEORGE WILLIAM FEATHERSTONHAUGH
THE FIRST U.S. GOVERNMENT GEOLOGIST |
| By: |
Edmund Berkeley, Dorothy Smith Berkeley |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£36.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0817353305 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780817353308 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 2006 |
| Pages: |
376 |
| Description: |
"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" |
| Synopsis: |
"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" |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, ports. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
The University of Alabama Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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