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Paradise found : nature in America at the time of discovery / / Steve Nicholls.   Author:  Nicholls, Steve. Title:  Paradise found : nature in America at the time of discovery / / Steve Nicholls. Publisher:  Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009. Description:  x, 524 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  Here Steve Nicholls demonstrates with both historical narrative and scientific inquiry just what an amazing place North America was and how it looked when the explorers first found it. --from publisher description Bibliography Note:  Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-493) and index. Contents:  A different world -- The discovery of paradise -- Abundant ocean -- Sea of whales -- Living in paradise -- Angels from the North -- Earthly paradise or earthly Hades? -- Poll Ben, and Martha -- souls and furs -- Gathering of waters -- A sea of islands -- Islands in the sea -- La Florida -- --To shining sea -- Blessing for the use of man -- Rivers of fish -- Wilderness cathedral -- The great stillness -- Devils in paradise -- A new world? Local Note:  NH copy 39088014661086 Purchased from the Cullman Endowment. Subject:  Natural history -- North America. Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- North America -- History. North America -- Discovery and exploration. North America -- Environmental conditions -- History. Catalog Source No.:  (OCoLC)ocn244177249 ISBN:  9780226583402 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226583406 (cloth) Copy/Holding information Call No. Collection Barcode Status   QH102 .N53 2009 Natural History 39088014661086 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList QH102 .N53 2009 American Indian, National Museum of 39088015272438 Checked In Request Copy Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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