The Eagle's Nest: Natural History and American Ideas, 1812-1842

by Charlotte M. Porter

"Charlotte Porter offers vivid details on the physical and professional trials of field naturalists, handicapped by lack of access to libraries and collections and held in deep disdain by the eastern savants, who more and more scorned their publications, rejected their species-splitting taxonomy, excluded them from the review process, and relegated them to the status of hirelings. Porter draws a poignant picture of the treatment thus accorded Titian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817302808
• ISBN13: 9780817302801
• Release Date: July 1986
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 to Postsecondary