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Author : John Brickell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1737
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : CHI:086758372
Author : Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés
Publisher : Unc Department of Romance Studies
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038231622
Volume 32 in the North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures series.
Author : Mark Catesby
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 9785879564709
Their descriptions in English and French.
Author : Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780807898260
The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from migrating butterflies to flying squirrels, and from brawny black bears to more species of salamander than anywhere else in the world. Mountain Nature is a lively and engaging account of the ecology of this remarkable region. It explores the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachians and the webs of interdependence that connect them. Within the region's roughly 35 million acres, extending from north Georgia through the Carolinas to northern Virginia, exists a mosaic of habitats, each fostering its own unique natural community. Stories of the animals and plants of the Southern Appalachians are intertwined with descriptions of the seasons, giving readers a glimpse into the interlinked rhythms of nature, from daily and yearly cycles to long-term geological changes. Residents and visitors to Great Smoky Mountains or Shenandoah National Parks, the Blue Ridge Parkway, or any of the national forests or other natural attractions within the region will welcome this appealing introduction to its ecological wonders.
Author : Susan Scott Parrish
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838891
Colonial America presented a new world of natural curiosities for settlers as well as the London-based scientific community. In American Curiosity, Susan Scott Parrish examines how various peoples in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. Parrish shows how scientific knowledge about America, rather than flowing strictly from metropole to colony, emerged from a horizontal exchange of information across the Atlantic. Delving into an understudied archive of letters, Parrish uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world. Although hierarchies of gender, class, institutional learning, place of birth or residence, and race persisted within the natural history community, the contributions of any participant were considered valuable as long as they supplied novel data or specimens from the American side of the Atlantic. Thus Anglo-American nonelites, women, Indians, and enslaved Africans all played crucial roles in gathering and relaying new information to Europe. Recognizing a significant tradition of nature writing and representation in North America well before the Transcendentalists, American Curiosity also enlarges our notions of the scientific Enlightenment by looking beyond European centers to find a socially inclusive American base to a true transatlantic expansion of knowledge.
Author : John Brickell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0371192579
This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Author : John Brickell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:1125521431
Author : Donald Culross Peattie
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781595341679
"A volume for a lifetime" is how The New Yorker described the first of Donald Culross Peatie's two books about American trees published in the 1950s. In this one-volume edition, modern readers are introduced to one of the best nature writers of the last century. As we read Peattie's eloquent and entertaining accounts of American trees, we catch glimpses of our country's history and past daily life that no textbook could ever illuminate so vividly. Here you'll learn about everything from how a species was discovered to the part it played in our country’s history. Pioneers often stabled an animal in the hollow heart of an old sycamore, and the whole family might live there until they could build a log cabin. The tuliptree, the tallest native hardwood, is easier to work than most softwood trees; Daniel Boone carved a sixty-foot canoe from one tree to carry his family from Kentucky into Spanish territory. In the days before the Revolution, the British and the colonists waged an undeclared war over New England's white pines, which made the best tall masts for fighting ships. It's fascinating to learn about the commercial uses of various woods -- for paper, fine furniture, fence posts, matchsticks, house framing, airplane wings, and dozens of other preplastic uses. But we cannot read this book without the occasional lump in our throats. The American elm was still alive when Peattie wrote, but as we read his account today we can see what caused its demise. Audubon's portrait of a pair of loving passenger pigeons in an American beech is considered by many to be his greatest painting. It certainly touched the poet in Donald Culross Peattie as he depicted the extinction of the passenger pigeon when the beech forest was destroyed. A Natural History of North American Trees gives us a picture of life in America from its earliest days to the middle of the last century. The information is always interesting, though often heartbreaking. While Peattie looks for the better side of man's nature, he reports sorrowfully on the greed and waste that have doomed so much of America's virgin forest.
Author : Albert E. Sanders,William Dewey Anderson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1570032785
The story of South Carolina's natural history investigations, especially in zoology and botany. It describes the state's diverse flora and fauna; the impact of social, political and economic events on natural history; and the role Charleston played in the state's scientific heritage.
Author : John Brickell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1737
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : BSB:BSB10074941
Author : Tom Earnhardt
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781469607009
In this richly illustrated love letter to the wild places and natural wonders of North Carolina, Tom Earnhardt, writer and host of UNC-TV's Exploring North Carolina and lifelong conservationist, seamlessly ties deep geological time and forgotten species from our distant past to the unparalleled biodiversity of today. With varied topography and a climate that is simultaneously subtropical, temperate, and subarctic, he shows that North Carolina is a meeting place for living things more commonly found far to the north and south. Highlighting the ways in which the state is a unique ecological crossroads, Earnhardt's research, insightful writing, and stunning photography will both teach and inspire. Crossroads of the Natural World invites readers to engage a variety of topics, including the impacts of invasive species, the importance of forested buffers along our rivers, the role of naturalists, and the challenges facing the state in a time of climate change and sea-level rise. By sharing his own journey of more than sixty years, Earnhardt entices North Carolinians of every age to explore the natural diversity of our state.
Author : Lindley S. Butler,Alan D. Watson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807898895
This collection of nineteen original essays on selected topics and epochs in North Carolina history offers a broad survey of the state from its discovery and colonization to the present. Each chapter consists of an interpretive essay on a specific aspect of North Carolina's history, a collection of supporting documents, and a brief bibliography. Selections cover historical periods ranging from Elizabethan to contemporary times and examine such issues as slavery, populism, civil rights, and the status of women. Essays address the tragedy of North Carolina's Indians, the state's role in the Revolutionary War and the Confederacy, and the impact of the Great Depression. North Carolina's place in the New South and evangelical culture in the state are also discussed. Designed as a supplementary reader for the study and teaching of North Carolina history, The North Carolina Experience will introduce college students to the process of historical research and writing. It will also be a valuable resource in secondary schools, public libraries, and the homes of those interested in North Carolina history.
Author : Jean Bradley Anderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822349839
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
Author : Rob Dunn
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781399800150
Over the past century, our species has made unprecedented technological innovations with which we have sought to control nature. In A Natural History of the Future, biologist Rob Dunn argues that such efforts are futile. We may see ourselves as life's overlords, but we are instead at its mercy. In the evolution of antibiotic resistance, the power of natural selection to create biodiversity, and even the surprising life of the London Underground, Dunn finds laws of life that no human activity can annul. When we create artificial islands of crops, dump toxic waste, or build communities, we provide new materials for old laws to shape. Life's future flourishing is not in question. Ours is. A Natural History of the Future sets a new standard for understanding the diversity and destiny of life itself.
Author : John Brickell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1968-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0930230175
Reprint : first published at Dublin for the author, in 1737.