California's Frontier Naturalists
Science and medicine biography, Nature, Science and technology
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
Summary
This book chronicles the fascinating story of the enthusiastic, stalwart, and talented naturalists who were drawn to California's spectacular natural bounty over the decades from 1786, when the La Pérouse Expedition arrived at Monterey, to the Death Valley expedition in 1890-91, the proclaimed "end" of the American frontier.
Title Details
ISBN
9780520230101
Publisher
University of California Press
Copyright Date
2006
Book number
293751