Michaux Andre Andrй Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785-1797 9780817320300

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Автор: Michaux Andre
Название: Andrй Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785-1797
ISBN: 9780817320300
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История естественных наук

Экология

Технологии производства: общие вопросы

Деревья, дикие цветы и растения

ISBN-10: 081732030X
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 608
Вес: 2.31 кг.
Дата издания: 30.03.2020
Серия: Biography
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 124 colour figures, 18 black & white figures, 16 maps, 2 tables
Размер: 190 x 264 x 55
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Technology: general issues,The environment,History of science,Trees, wildflowers & plants, SCIENCE / History,NATURE / Plants / General,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Environmentalists & Naturalists,BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
Подзаголовок: Journals and letters, 1785aeuro"1797
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Journals and letters, translated from the original French, bring Michauxs work to modern readers and scientists. Known to todays biologists primarily as the Michx, at the end of more than 700 plant names, Andr? Michaux was an intrepid French naturalist. Under the directive of King Louis XVI, he was commissioned to search out and grow new, rare, and never-before-described plant species and ship them back to his homeland in order to improve French forestry, agriculture, and horticulture. He made major botanical discoveries and published them in his two landmark books, Histoire des ch?nes de lAm?rique (1801), a compendium of all oak species recognized from eastern North America, and Flora Boreali-Americana (1803), the first account of all plants known in eastern North America. Straddling the fields of documentary editing, history of the early republic, history of science, botany, and American studies, Andr? Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785-1797 is the first complete English edition of Michauxs American journals. This copiously annotated translation includes important excerpts from his little-known correspondence as well as a substantial introduction situating Michaux and his work in the larger scientific context of the day. To carry out his mission, Michaux traveled from the Bahamas to Hudson Bay and west to the Mississippi River on nine separate journeys, all indicated on a finely rendered, color-coded map in this volume. His writings detail the many hardships - debilitating disease, robberies, dangerous wild animals, even shipwreck - that Michaux endured on the North American frontier and on his return home. But they also convey the soaring joys of exploration in a new world where nature still reigned supreme, a paradise of plants never before known to Western science. The thrill of discovery drove Michaux ever onward, even ultimately to his untimely death in 1802 on the remote island of Madagascar.
Дополнительное описание: History of science|Trees, wildflowers and plants: general interest|The environment|Technology: general issues

Andrй Michaux in North America: Journals and Letters, 1785-1797, Michaux Andre