Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America

by Lee Alan Dugatkin

Book Overview

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who wrote that the flora and fauna of America (humans included) were inferior to European specimens. Thomas Jefferson--author of the Declaration of Independence, U.S...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226169146
• ISBN13: 9780226169149
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.3"