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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kroll, Gary, 1970-     Subjects     Naturalists -- United States -- Biography -- History.     Explorers -- United States -- Biography -- History.     Discoveries in science -- United States -- History.     Underwater exploration -- United States -- History.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kroll, Gary, 1970-       by title:      America's ocean wild...         MARC Display

America's ocean wilderness : a cultural history of twentieth-century exploration / Gary Kroll. by 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. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 551.46072 Kr Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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