George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S. Government Geologist
Published by Univ. of Alabama Press (1988) Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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Very Good in Very Good Dust Jacket Cloth 8vo 357pp History of American Science and Technology series.
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- Title
- George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S. Government Geologist
- Author
- Berkeley, Edmund and Dorothy Smith Berkeley
- Publisher
- Univ. of Alabama Press (1988) Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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- Binding
- Hardcover
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- 0817303650
- ISBN 13
- 9780817303655
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- Biography
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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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