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The Missouri River journals of John James Audubon /
"The first accurate transcription of John James Audubon's 1843 journals, which includes recently discovered and previously unpublished journal entries detailing his last expedition along the upper Missouri River"--Provided by publisher.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1. Maria Rebecca Audubon, her grandfather's 1843 upper Missouri River journals, and "The great auk speech"
- Part II. Audubon's upper Missouri River expedition of 1843
- His eminence
- Preparations
- Minnie's Land to St. Louis, March 11-28
- St. Louis, March 28-April 24
- St. Louis to the Yellowstone and Fort Union, April 25-June 12
- Fort Union and the prairies, June 13-August 15
- Fort Union to St. Louis, August 16-October 19
- St. Louis to Minnie's Land, October 22-November 7
- Part III. The three forgotten manuscript journals
- Editorial principles
- The Beinecke partial copy, August 5-13
- The original field notebook and the Newberry partial copy
- Part IV. Audubon's conservation ethic reconsidered : an analytical history
- How his hunting and conservation ethic have been represented in the biographies
- The lived ethic
- The written ethic
- Epilogue
- Part V. Appendixes: Editorial principles; The 1843 diary of John G. Bell; The 1843 diary of Isaac Sprague; Audubon's "George Catlin" powder horn from the upper Missouri expedition; "The pet bear" : an unpublished episode.