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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Nicholls, Steve.
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Natural history -- North America.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North America -- History.
North America -- Discovery and exploration.
North America -- Environmental conditions -- History.
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Paradise found : nat...
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Paradise found : nature in America at the time of discovery / Steve Nicholls.
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Nicholls, Steve.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Subjects
Natural history -- North America.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North America -- History.
North America -- Discovery and exploration.
North America -- Environmental conditions -- History.
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008036076.html
ISBN:
9780226583402 (cloth : alk. paper) :
0226583406 (cloth)
Description:
x, 524 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
A different world -- The discovery of paradise -- Abundant ocean -- Sea of whales -- Living in paradise -- Angels from the North -- Earthly paradise or earthly Hades? -- Poll Ben, and Martha -- souls and furs -- Gathering of waters -- A sea of islands -- Islands in the sea -- La Florida -- --To shining sea -- Blessing for the use of man -- Rivers of fish -- Wilderness cathedral -- The great stillness -- Devils in paradise -- A new world?
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Here Steve Nicholls demonstrates with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. --from publisher description
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Hawaii State Library
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