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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Kroll, Gary, 1970-
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Naturalists -- United States -- Biography -- History.
Explorers -- United States -- Biography -- History.
Discoveries in science -- United States -- History.
Underwater exploration -- United States -- History.
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America's ocean wild...
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America's ocean wilderness : a cultural history of twentieth-century exploration / Gary Kroll.
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Kroll, Gary, 1970-
Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, c2008.
Subjects
Naturalists -- United States -- Biography -- History.
Explorers -- United States -- Biography -- History.
Discoveries in science -- United States -- History.
Underwater exploration -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780700615674 (cloth : alk. paper) :
0700615679 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description:
ix, 249 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. The oceanic hunting grounds of Roy Chapman Andrews : whales as a resource and game in postfrontier America -- 2. Robert Cushman Murphy and the national history of ocean islands : conservation and the myth of the inexhaustible ocean frontier -- 3. Sensational management : William Beebe and the natural history of the ocean sublime -- 4. Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us : the construction of oceancentrism -- 5. Eugenie Clark and postwar ocean ichthyology : gender, oceanic natural history, and the domestication of the ocean frontier -- 6. Technophobia and technophilia in the oceanic commons : Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Cousteau during the American cold war -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
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