Beyond the Stony Mountains Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today

Name: Beyond the Stony Mountains Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today
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ISBN: 9780195162431

ISBN-10: 0195162439

ISBN-13: 9780195162431

Edition: 2004

Authors: Daniel B. Botkin

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Dan Botkin is one of the leading ecologists of his generation. This book would follow the course of the Lewis and Clark expedition, ecoregion by ecoregion, showing the land and environment that this expedition explored, and how the personal qualities and preconceptions that they brought to the expedition influences what they perceived in the explorations. The encounter of two highly insightful and intelligent men of European-based culture, with nature and the indigenous human cultures of the American West, was conditioned and influenced by earlier conceptions about the harmony or balance of nature, that they needed to revise and correct in order to succeed in their expedition. Prior to the…

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List price: $38.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/1/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.980
Language: English




A partially settled landscape : Lewis and Clark near St. Louis



Changing old river



A countryside pleasant, rich, and partially settled : through the eastern woodlands



Into the tall-grass prairie



Restoring the lower Missouri River



Fire, wind, and water : the Platte River and the Loess Hills within the prairies



Winter on the plains : Lewis and Clark among the Mandans



America's Serengeti



Scenes of visionary enchantment : the Upper Missouri



"Pleasingly beautiful" and "sublimely grand" : pathways to the mountains



A passage steep and stoney, strewn with fallen timber : the Bitterroot Mountains



Roll on, Columbia, roll on : down the Snake and Columbia Rivers



Changing old forests at the mouth of the Columbia



In the wake of Lewis and Clark