The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic by Kevin C. Armitage

The Nature Study Movement: The Forgotten Popularizer of America's Conservation Ethic

Kevin C. Armitage

291 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction nature science informative slow-paced

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Beginning in the late nineteenth century, thousands of Americans turned to an unexpected pastime that had been theirs to take up all along: the study of nature. Armed with cameras and collecting jars, everyday citizens wandered the country's fores...

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