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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... leaves ; the wild breath of the forest , fragrant with bark and berry , fans the brow with grateful freshness ; and the beautiful wood - light , neither garish nor gloomy , full of calm and peaceful influences , sheds repose over the ...
... leaves wither away upon the lowly herbs in a blessing of fertility . But it is the great trees , stretching their ... leaf fallen , dull , still , sad , like the finger of Death . It is the peculiar nature of the forest , that life and ...
... Leaves of every tint of green played in the summer sunshine , leaves fluttered in the moonlight , and the show- ers of heaven fell everywhere upon the green leaves of the unbroken forest . Sixty years have worked a wonderful change ...
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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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