The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history / Darrin Lunde.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Broadway Books, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780307464316
- 0307464318
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Main Library | Biography | ROOSEVEL T. L962 | Available | 33111010450142 |
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Winner of the inaugural Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize
A captivating account of how Theodore Roosevelt's lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement and determined his legacy as a founding father of today's museum naturalism.
No U.S. president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than is Theodore Roosevelt-prodigious hunter, tireless adventurer, and ardent conservationist. We think of him as a larger-than-life original, yet in The Naturalist , Darrin Lunde has firmly situated Roosevelt's indomitable curiosity about the natural world in the tradition of museum naturalism.
As a child, Roosevelt actively modeled himself on the men (including John James Audubon and Spencer F. Baird) who pioneered this key branch of biology by developing a taxonomy of the natural world-basing their work on the experiential study of nature. The impact that these scientists and their trailblazing methods had on Roosevelt shaped not only his audacious personality but his entire career, informing his work as a statesman and ultimately affecting generations of Americans' relationship to this country's wilderness.
Drawing on Roosevelt's diaries and travel journals as well as Lunde's own role as a leading figure in museum naturalism today, The Naturalist reads Roosevelt through the lens of his love for nature. From his teenage collections of birds and small mammals to his time at Harvard and political rise, Roosevelt's fascination with wildlife and exploration culminated in his triumphant expedition to Africa, a trip which he himself considered to be the apex of his varied life.
With narrative verve, Lunde brings his singular experience to bear on our twenty-sixth president's life and constructs a perceptively researched and insightful history that tracks Roosevelt's maturation from exuberant boyhood hunter to vital champion of serious scientific inquiry.
"Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, in 2016" -- Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index.
No U.S. president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than is Theodore Roosevelt--prodigious hunter, tireless adventurer, and ardent conservationist. We think of him as a larger-than-life original, yet in The Naturalist, Darrin Lunde has firmly situated Roosevelt's indomitable curiosity about the natural world in the tradition of museum naturalism. As a child, Roosevelt actively modeled himself on the men (including John James Audubon and Spencer F. Baird) who pioneered this key branch of biology by developing a taxonomy of the natural world--basing their work on the experiential study of nature. The impact that these scientists and their trailblazing methods had on Roosevelt shaped not only his audacious personality but his entire career, informing his work as a statesman and ultimately affecting generations of Americans' relationship to this country's wilderness. -- back cover.
Introduction -- pt. I. The museum naturalist. The seal on Broadway ; Collections make museums ; The mind but not the body ; Full-bore birder ; Egypt, land of my dreams ; Alone at Harvard -- pt. II. All hunters should be nature lovers. Roosevelt rebels ; Hell with the fires out ; Change in the West ; Winchester naturalist ; Real men and mousers ; A Tiffany knife to the heart ; Who's a nature faker? -- pt. III. Roosevelt's new naturalism. I am going to Africa ; A railroad through the Pleistocene ; Bwana Tumbo : Mr. Big Belly ; Deep in prehistoric thought ; Bent on mischief ; Hunters and naturalists ; Epilogue. The end of the game.