Book ID: CBB000771506

California's Frontier Naturalists (2006)

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Beidleman, Richard G. (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2006
Physical Details: xv + 484 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the botanists, zoologists, geologists, paleontologists, astronomers, and ethnologists who came to California's wilderness in the period from 1781 (the La Pérouse Expedition) to 1890-91 (the Death Valley expedition).


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Review Porter, Charlotte M. (2007) Review of "California's Frontier Naturalists". Journal of the History of Biology (p. 193). unapi

Review Brock, Emily (2007) Review of "California's Frontier Naturalists". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 397). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Murphy, Kathleen S.
Lunde, Darrin
Ronald Raminelli
Floris Solleveld
Winkler, Martina
Vallance, Thomas
Concepts
Travel; exploration
Naturalists
Natural history
Botany
Specimens
Collectors and collecting
Time Periods
18th century
19th century
20th century, early
17th century
Early modern
Modern
Places
North America
Australia
United States
Portugal
France
Great Britain
Institutions
Hudson's Bay Company
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