Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- 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 -- 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? -- 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.
Summary:
No U.S. president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than is 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 firmly situated Roosevelt's indomitable curiosity about the natural world in the tradition of museum naturalism. As a child, Roosevelt actively modeled himself on the men (including John James Audubon and Spencer F. Baird) who pioneered this key branch of biology by developing a taxonomy of the natural world - basing their work on the experiential study of nature. The impact that these scientists and their trailblazing methods had on Roosevelt shaped not only his audacious personality but his entire career, informing his work as a statesman and ultimately affecting generations of Americans' relationship to this country's wilderness. -- back cover.
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