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To Pass On a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer
Michael Williams
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Description for To Pass On a Good Earth: The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer
Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BG; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 535.
To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary ""Great God beyond the Sierras,"" Carl Otwin Sauer is America’s most famed geographer, an inspiration to both conservators and poets, yet no book-length biography of him has existed until now.
This Missouri-born son of German immigrants contributed to many fields, with a versatility rare in his time and virtually unknown today. Sauer explored plant and animal domestication, the entry of Native Americans into the continent, their transformation of the land into prairies ... Read more
To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary ""Great God beyond the Sierras,"" Carl Otwin Sauer is America’s most famed geographer, an inspiration to both conservators and poets, yet no book-length biography of him has existed until now.
This Missouri-born son of German immigrants contributed to many fields, with a versatility rare in his time and virtually unknown today. Sauer explored plant and animal domestication, the entry of Native Americans into the continent, their transformation of the land into prairies ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935669
SKU
V9780813935669
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99-15
About Michael Williams
The late Michael Williams was Professor of Geography at Oxford University, UK and the author of the landmark Deforesting the Earth: From Prehistory to Global Crisis. David Lowenthal is Profesor Emeritus of Geography at University College London, UK and the author of George Perkins Marsh: Prophet of Conservation. William M. Denevan is Carl O. Sauer Professor ... Read more
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