A Species of Eternity
Joseph Kastner
An anecdotal history of the activities, explorations, discoveries, and adventures of the naturalists who roamed, painted, and wrote about the natural wonders of late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century North America.
Buy this book at Amazon- Publisher
- Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Year
- 1977
- ISBN-13
- 9780394490335
- Genre
- History
- Topics
- NaturalistsNatural history explorationEarly American history
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1978)
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