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Book
Title:
The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history
ISBN:
9780307464309

9780307464323
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York : Crown Publishers, [2016]
Physical Description:
viii, 334 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Contents:
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.
Summary:
"The surprising story of our "naturalist president" Theodore Roosevelt and how his lifelong passion for the natural world set the stage for America's wildlife conservation movement. No United States president is more popularly associated with nature and wildlife than 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 located Roosevelt in the proud tradition of museum naturalism. From his earliest days, Roosevelt actively modeled himself on the men who pioneered a key branch of biology through the collection of animal specimens and by developing a taxonomy of the natural world. The influence they would have on Roosevelt shaped not only his audacious personality but his 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 expedition journals and pulling from his own experience as a leading figure in today's museum naturalism, Lunde constructs a thoughtfully researched, singularly insightful history that tracks Roosevelt's maturation from exuberant boyhood hunter to vital champion of serious scientific inquiry"-- Provided by publisher.

"A biography of Theodore Roosevelt focusing on his career as a naturalist, his role as a pioneer for wilderness engagement, and an early advocate for museum building"-- Provided by publisher.
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