American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women NaturalistsMarcia Bonta Texas A&M University Press, 1995 - 248 Seiten Armed with hand lenses and opera glasses, traveling on foot, by buggy, or model T, they explored thousands of miles of deserts, forests, beaches, and jungles. They were pioneering women naturalists who observed, studied, and experimented, then returned to write up their findings. What resulted were exquisitely written and scientifically accurate accounts of their explorations into natural science--a field long dominated by men. Marcia Myers Bonta has collected the most charming and sensitive writings of twenty-five women naturalists of the late nineteenth through early twentieth centuries and supplemented them with well-researched biographical profiles. From Susan Fenimore Cooper's early warnings about the profligate use of natural resources to Mary Treat's tenacious defense of her scientific discoveries, from Alice Eastwood's defiance of convention and Caroline Dormon's, Lucy Braun's, and Rachel Carson's impassioned pleas to save the earth, American Women Afield catalogs the determination and devotion of these early scientists and acknowledges their invaluable contributions to ornithology, entomology, botany, agrostology, and ecology. Each excerpt in this book reveals the important role these women played not only as writers but as popularizers of nature study at a time when very little literature on this subject was available to the general public. Whether scientist or generalist, the reader will discover insights into their methods of field work as they tame wasps, camp out in jungles, climb unnamed mountaintops, or sit patiently in the woods for hours. Written as a companion book to Bonta's earlier published Women in the Field: America's Pioneering Women Naturalists, American Women Afield adds an additional dimension to female scientific history by presenting the authors' own words. Luckily for the reader, Bonta has scoured libraries, museums, and private collections to uncover letters, out-of-print journal articles, field notes, and selected book chapters from the recesses of academia. Each selection is unique in style, tone, and subject and clearly shows not only the authors' love of nature but their desire to communicate that love to others. American Women Afield is a charming, informative, and revealing account of pioneering women--mentors whose lives have been forgotten for far too long. |
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... Hours 2. Graceanna Lewis Birds and Their Friends 3. Mary Treat Plants That Eat Animals , from Home Studies in Nature 4. Martha Maxwell From On the Plains and among the Peaks ; or How Mrs. Maxwell Made Her Natural History Collection , by ...
... Hours , Mary Treat's Home Studies in Nature , Florence Merriam Bailey's Birds of Village and Field , Ann Haven Morgan's Field Book of Ponds and Streams , and , of course , Rachel Carson's best - selling books on the sea as well as her ...
... Hours started me on my quest in search of America's pioneering women natural- ists . First published in 1850 , four years before Walden was written by Henry David Thoreau , Rural Hours was an unqualified success— " a great book , the ...
... Hours remained in print for forty years , going through six American and two English editions , including a complete revision by Cooper herself in 1887 . In " Small Family Memories , " Cooper credited her interest in na- ture to her ...
... Hours was written long ago , for the birds species she mentions have disappeared , driven into extinction by humani- ty's greed . Cooper was one of the first American nature writers to warn Amer- icans about the dangers of their ...
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Graceanna Lewis | 9 |
Mary Treat | 17 |
Martha Maxwell | 33 |
Annie Trumbull Slosson | 45 |
Katharine Dooris Sharp | 55 |
Althea Sherman | 62 |
Elizabeth Gifford Peckham | 75 |
Mary Sophie Young | 152 |
Edith Clements | 161 |
Edith Patch | 171 |
Ann Haven Morgan | 179 |
Margaret Morse Nice | 189 |
Nellie Harris Rau | 203 |
Amelia Laskey | 210 |
Caroline Dormon | 216 |
Alice Eastwood | 84 |
Florence Merriam Bailey | 95 |
Anna Botsford Comstock | 106 |
Cordelia Stanwood | 114 |
Agnes Chase | 126 |
Ynes Mexia | 136 |
E Lucy Braun | 223 |
Ruth Harris Thomas | 230 |
Rachel Carson | 236 |
Afterword | 244 |
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