George William Featherstonhaugh: The First U.S. Government Geologist

By Dorothy Smith Berkeley and Edmund Berkeley Jr.

"U.S. historians can read this book with considerable profit for the details it offers; general readers can enjoy it as a straightforward and informative biography."
--Choice

"For anyone interested in the history of American geology, knowledge of G. W. Featherstonhaugh (1780-1866) is both essential and hard to obtain. He was the force behind the first railroad in America; a pioneer in scientific agriculture; an essayist, poet, and novelist; a lobbyist; a linguist; and a daring diplomat who saved the king and queen of France from certain death. Yet] his strongest tie was with the geology. This] biography is interesting, well researched and well written. It is a balanced study of a complex man who did so much work and generated such controversy."
--Earth Sciences History

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817303650
• ISBN13: 9780817303655
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"