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The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt, a Lifetime of Exploration, and the Triumph of American Natural History
By Lunde, Darrin
- ISBN
- 9780307464309 9780307464323
- Publisher
- Crown
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Reviewed on February 15, 2016 | Social Sciences
Lunde (collection manager, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History) uses diaries and expedition journals as well as his own fieldwork experience to present an empathetic portrait of Theodore Roosevelt as a hunter, collector, nature analyst, and conservationist. Differing from Michael Canfield's Theodore Roosevelt in the Field, which relates how adventuring influenced Roosevelt, Lunde's book stresses how the former president followed in the paths of previous and contemporary naturalists t...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
