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America's ocean wilderness : a cultural history of twentieth-century exploration / Gary Kroll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kroll, Gary, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naturalists--United States--Biography--History.
- Naturalists.
- Explorers--United States--Biography--History.
- Explorers.
- Discoveries in science--United States--History.
- Discoveries in science.
- Underwater exploration--United States--History.
- Underwater exploration.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 249 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [2008]
- Contents:
- 1 The Oceanic Hunting Grounds of Roy Chapman Andrews: Whales as Resource and Game in Postfrontier America 9
- 2 Robert Cushman Murphy and the Natural History of Ocean Islands: Conservation and the Myth of the Inexhaustible Ocean Frontier 37
- 3 Sensational Management: William Beebe and the Natural History of the Ocean Sublime 65
- 4 Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us: The Construction of Oceancentrism 95
- 5 Eugenie Clark and Postwar Ocean Ichthyology: Gender, Oceanic Natural History, and the Domestication of the Ocean Frontier 124
- 6 Technophobia and Technophilia in the Oceanic Commons: Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Cousteau during the American Cold War 152.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-239) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780700615674
- 0700615679
- OCLC:
- 180756980
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