The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte
Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson,
and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing.
Yet despite their range of genres--including exploration
narratives, technical reports, natural histories, scientific
autobiographies, fictional utopias, nature writing, and popular
scientific literature--these seven authors produced strikingly
connected representations of nature and the practice of science in
America from about 1840 to 1970. Michael A. Bryson provides a
thoughtful examination of the authors, their work, and the ways in
which science and nature unite them.
Visions of the Land explores how our environmental attitudes
have influenced and been shaped by various scientific perspectives
from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in
the mid-nineteenth century to the start of the contemporary
environmental movement in the twentieth century. Bryson offers a
literary-critical analysis of how writers of different backgrounds,
scientific training, and geographic experiences represented nature
through various kinds of natural science, from natural history to
cartography to resource management to ecology and evolution, and in
the process, explored the possibilities and limits of science
itself.
Visions of the Land examines the varied, sometimes conflicting,
but always fascinating ways in which we have defined the relations
among science, nature, language, and the human community.
Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using
science to live well within nature.
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