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The Lives of Dillon Ripley : Natural Scientist, Wartime Spy, and Pioneering Leader of the Smithsonian Institution /
A Yale-educated Renaissance man, S. Dillon Ripley was a "courtly, determined, hugely ambitious, energetic, funny, and colorful ornithologist, conservationist, and cultural standard-bearer" who led the Smithsonian Institution for twenty years, during its greatest period of growth. During hi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / by Tom Lovejoy
- Introduction
- Growing up golden
- Birds of many feathers
- Asian and other adventures
- Pleasantly busy in New Haven
- Defining a new culture
- Displaying the nation's art
- Media ventures and scholarly triumph
- Building Smithsonian U.
- Waves of complaints
- Science and conservation
- Retiring the crown.