The naturalist : Theodore Roosevelt, a lifetime of exploration, and the triumph of American natural history /
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...
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New York :
Crown Publishers,
[2016]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. The Museum Naturalist. Chapter 1. The Seal on Broadway ; Chapter 2. Collections Make Museums ; Chapter 3. The Mind but Not the Body ; Chapter 4. Full-Bore Birder ; Chapter 5. Egypt, Land of My Dreams ; Chapter 6. Alone at Harvard
- Part II. All Hunters Should Be Nature Lovers. Chapter 7. Roosevelt Rebels ; Chapter 8. Hell with the Fires Out ; Chapter 9. Change in the West ; Chapter 10. Winchester Naturalist ; Chapter 11. Real Men and Mousers ; Chapter 12. A Tiffany Knife to the Heart ; Chapter 13. Who's a Nature Faker?
- Part III. Roosevelt's New Naturalism. Chapter 14. I Am Going to Africa ; Chapter 15. A Railroad Through the Pleistocene ; Chapter 16. Bwana Tumbo - Mr. Big Belly ; Chapter 17. Deep in Prehistoric Thought ; Chapter 18. Bent on Mischief ; Chapter 19. Hunters and Naturalists ; Epilogue. The End of the Game
- Acknowledgments
- Sources and Notes
- Bibliography
- Photography Credits
- Index.