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The Resource The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history, Darrin Lunde

The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history, Darrin Lunde

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  • "The surprising story of our "naturalist president" Theodore Roosevelt and how his lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement. No United States president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than Theodore Roosevelt--prodigious hunter, tireless adventurer, and ardent conservationist. We think of him as a larger-than-life original, yet in The Naturalist, Darrin Lunde has located Roosevelt in the proud tradition of museum naturalism. From his earliest days, Roosevelt actively modeled himself on the men who pioneered a key branch of biology through the collection of animal specimens and by developing a taxonomy of the natural world. The influence they would have on Roosevelt shaped not only his audacious personality but his career, informing his work as a statesman and ultimately affecting generations of Americans' relationship to this country's wilderness. Drawing on Roosevelt's diaries and expedition journals and pulling from his own experience as a leading figure in today's museum naturalism, Lunde constructs a thoughtfully researched, singularly insightful history that tracks Roosevelt's maturation from exuberant boyhood hunter to vital champion of serious scientific inquiry"--
  • "A biography of Theodore Roosevelt focusing on his career as a naturalist, his role as a pioneer for wilderness engagement, and an early advocate for museum building"--
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
viii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Contents
  • Alone at Harvard
  • Part II.
  • All Hunters Should Be Nature Lovers.
  • Roosevelt Rebels
  • Hell with the Fires Out
  • Change in the West
  • Winchester Naturalist
  • Real Men and Mousers
  • A Tiffany Knife to the Heart
  • Who's a Nature Faker?
  • Introduction
  • Part III.
  • Roosevelt's New Naturalism.
  • I Am Going to Africa
  • A Railroad Through the Pleistocene
  • Bwana Tumbo: Mr. Big Belly
  • Deep in Prehistoric Thought
  • Bent on Mischief
  • Hunters and Naturalists ;
  • Epilogue.
  • The End of the Game
  • Part I.
  • The Museum Naturalist.
  • The Seal on Broadway
  • Collections Make Museums
  • The Mind but Not the Body
  • Full-Bore Birder
  • Egypt, Land of My Dreams
  • Introduction -- The museum naturalist -- All hunters should be nature lovers -- Roosevelt's new naturalism -- Epilogue: The end of the game
Isbn
9780307464309
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The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history
Title
The naturalist
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Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history
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Darrin Lunde
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Author
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Language
eng
Summary
  • "The surprising story of our "naturalist president" Theodore Roosevelt and how his lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement. No United States president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than Theodore Roosevelt--prodigious hunter, tireless adventurer, and ardent conservationist. We think of him as a larger-than-life original, yet in The Naturalist, Darrin Lunde has located Roosevelt in the proud tradition of museum naturalism. From his earliest days, Roosevelt actively modeled himself on the men who pioneered a key branch of biology through the collection of animal specimens and by developing a taxonomy of the natural world. The influence they would have on Roosevelt shaped not only his audacious personality but his career, informing his work as a statesman and ultimately affecting generations of Americans' relationship to this country's wilderness. Drawing on Roosevelt's diaries and expedition journals and pulling from his own experience as a leading figure in today's museum naturalism, Lunde constructs a thoughtfully researched, singularly insightful history that tracks Roosevelt's maturation from exuberant boyhood hunter to vital champion of serious scientific inquiry"--
  • "A biography of Theodore Roosevelt focusing on his career as a naturalist, his role as a pioneer for wilderness engagement, and an early advocate for museum building"--
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Biography type
individual biography
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Lunde, Darrin P
Dewey number
973.91/1092
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
  • plates
Index
index present
LC call number
E757
LC item number
.L95 2016
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Roosevelt, Theodore
  • Nature conservation
  • Natural history museums
  • Naturalists
  • Conservationists
  • Presidents
Label
The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history, Darrin Lunde
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Alone at Harvard
  • Part II.
  • All Hunters Should Be Nature Lovers.
  • Roosevelt Rebels
  • Hell with the Fires Out
  • Change in the West
  • Winchester Naturalist
  • Real Men and Mousers
  • A Tiffany Knife to the Heart
  • Who's a Nature Faker?
  • Introduction
  • Part III.
  • Roosevelt's New Naturalism.
  • I Am Going to Africa
  • A Railroad Through the Pleistocene
  • Bwana Tumbo: Mr. Big Belly
  • Deep in Prehistoric Thought
  • Bent on Mischief
  • Hunters and Naturalists ;
  • Epilogue.
  • The End of the Game
  • Part I.
  • The Museum Naturalist.
  • The Seal on Broadway
  • Collections Make Museums
  • The Mind but Not the Body
  • Full-Bore Birder
  • Egypt, Land of My Dreams
  • Introduction -- The museum naturalist -- All hunters should be nature lovers -- Roosevelt's new naturalism -- Epilogue: The end of the game
Control code
ocn925410851
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
viii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780307464309
Lccn
2015036683
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40025968854
Other physical details
illustrations, map
Label
The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history, Darrin Lunde
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • Alone at Harvard
  • Part II.
  • All Hunters Should Be Nature Lovers.
  • Roosevelt Rebels
  • Hell with the Fires Out
  • Change in the West
  • Winchester Naturalist
  • Real Men and Mousers
  • A Tiffany Knife to the Heart
  • Who's a Nature Faker?
  • Introduction
  • Part III.
  • Roosevelt's New Naturalism.
  • I Am Going to Africa
  • A Railroad Through the Pleistocene
  • Bwana Tumbo: Mr. Big Belly
  • Deep in Prehistoric Thought
  • Bent on Mischief
  • Hunters and Naturalists ;
  • Epilogue.
  • The End of the Game
  • Part I.
  • The Museum Naturalist.
  • The Seal on Broadway
  • Collections Make Museums
  • The Mind but Not the Body
  • Full-Bore Birder
  • Egypt, Land of My Dreams
  • Introduction -- The museum naturalist -- All hunters should be nature lovers -- Roosevelt's new naturalism -- Epilogue: The end of the game
Control code
ocn925410851
Dimensions
25 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
viii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Isbn
9780307464309
Lccn
2015036683
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40025968854
Other physical details
illustrations, map

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