George William Featherstonhaugh - The First US Government Geologist:
Language: English
Published by University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, History of American Science and Technology Series, 1988., 1988
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HARDBACK original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine pictorial dust-jacket - very fine portrait frontispiece (= illus. 1) pages: xviii 357 illus. 24 146mm x 228mm (5.75 x 9") as new 0.
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- Title
- George William Featherstonhaugh - The First US Government Geologist:
- Author
- Berkeley, E. & Berkeley, D. S
- Publisher
- University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, University of Alabama Press, History of American Science and Technology Series, 1988.
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0817303650
- ISBN 13
- 9780817303655
- Seller catalogs
- biography, geology
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"For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) is both essential and hard to obtain. He was the force behind the first railroad in America; a pioneer in scientific agriculture; an essayist, poet, and novelist; a lobbyist; a linguist; and a daring diplomat who saved the king and queen of France from certain death. [Yet] his strongest tie was with the geology. [This] biography is interesting, well researched and well written. It is a balanced study of a complex man who did so much work and generated such controversy."
—Earth Sciences History
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