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UNINA9910458222303321 |
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Bell Stephen <1956-> |
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A life in shadow [[electronic resource] ] : Aimé Bonpland in southern South America, 1817-1858 / / Stephen Bell |
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Stanford, CA, : Stanford University Press, c2010 |
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1 online resource (338 p.) |
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Botanists - South America |
Naturalists - South America |
French - South America |
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South America History 19th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Return to the Americas -- 2. Prisoner in Paraguay -- 3. From Paraguay to Pago Largo -- 4. Somber Years of Civil War -- 5. The Challenges of Peace -- 6. Journey’s End -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, |
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rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America. |
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UNINA9910463591903321 |
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Trevathan Kim <1958-> |
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Liminal zones [[electronic resource] ] : where lakes end and rivers begin / / Kim Trevathan |
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Knoxville, TN, : University of Tennessee Press, 2013 |
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1 online resource (238 p.) |
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Rivers - United States |
Dams - Environmental aspects - United States |
Limnology - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Contents; Introduction; Part I: A Season Bereft; 1. The Big South Fork: Productive Failure; 2. The Nantahala: The Liminal Unveiled; 3. My History with Dams; Part II: Road Trip of Rivers; 4. The Concept; 5. Easy Water: The Tippecanoe and the James; 6. The Rogue's Embrace; 7. Aesthetic Convergence:The Clearwater and the Deschutes; 8. Reconsidering the Liminal: The Dolores, the Conejos, and a Fractious Campground in Folsom, California; Part III: Brackish Waters; 9. Big Lagoon to Maple Creek: From One World to Another; 10. Fear, Delusion, and Peace on the Edisto; Part IV: Damaged Waters |
11. Seeking Damaged Waters12. Up Pistol Creek; 13. Finding and Smelling the Pigeon; Part V: Night Paddling; 14. Hematite; 15. Energy; Part VI: Company; 16. With Libby on Hematite; 17. Navigating by the Stars up Citico Creek; 18. Warning: German Shepherd in Bow; 19. Final Thoughts; Epilogue: Letters; Bibliography |
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"After the death of his paddling companion, a German shepherd- |
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labrador retriever mix named Jasper, Kim Trevathan began a series of solitary upstream kayaking quests in search of what he calls "liminal zones," transitional areas where dammed reservoirs give way to the current of the rivers that feed them. For four years he scoured the rivers and lakes of America, where environmentally damaging, and now decaying, man-made structures have transformed the waterways. In this thoughtful work, he details his upriver adventures, describing the ecological and aesthetic differences between a dammed river and a free-flowing river and exploring the implications of what liminal zones represent--a reassertion of pure, unadulterated nature over engineered bodies of water. Trevathan began by exploring the rivers and creeks of his childhood: the Blood River and Clarks River in western Kentucky. He soon ventured out to the Wolf River, the Big South Fork of the Cumberland, and other waterways in Tennessee. In 2008, he looped around the country with trips to Indiana's Tippecanoe River, Montana's Clearwater River, Oregon's Deschutes and Rogue Rivers, and Colorado's Dolores River, as well as adventures on such southeastern rivers as the Edisto, the Tellico, and the Nantahala. To Trevathan, paddling upstream became a sort of religion, with a vaporous deity that kept him searching. Each excursion yielded something unexpected, from a near-drowning in the Rogue River to a mysterious fog bank that arose across the Nantahala at midday. Throughout Liminal Zones, Trevathan considers what makes certain places special, why some are set aside and protected, why others are not, and how free-flowing streams remain valuable to our culture, our history, and our physical and spiritual health. This contemplative chronicle of his journeys by water reveals discoveries as varied and complex as the rivers themselves."-- |
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UNINA9910459349303321 |
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Autore |
Halttunen Karen <1951-> |
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Murder most foul [[electronic resource] ] : the killer and the American Gothic imagination / / Karen Halttunen |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 1998 |
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1 online resource (xiv, 322p., [32]p. of plates ) : ill., facsims., plan, ports |
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Gothic revival (Literature) - United States |
Murder in literature |
Murder - United States |
Murder - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-312) and index. |
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Introduction 1. The Murderer as Common Sinner 2. The Birth of Horror 3. The Pornography of Violence 4. The Construction of Murder as Mystery 5. Murder in the Family Circle 6. Murdering Medusa 7. The Murderer as Mental Alien Epilogue Notes Index |
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In this text, Karen Halttunen explores the changing view of murder from early New England sermons read at the public executions, through to the true crime literature and tabloid reporting of the late 1990's. |
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