American Women Afield: Writings by Pioneering Women Naturalists

By: Marcia Bonta

Book Overview

Armed with hand lenses and opera glasses, traveling on foot, by buggy, or model T, they explored thousands of miles of deserts, forests, beaches, and jungles. They were pioneering women naturalists who observed, studied, and experimented, then returned to write up their findings. What resulted were exquisitely written and scientifically accurate accounts of their explorations into natural science--a field long dominated by men. Marcia Myers Bonta...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0890966338
• ISBN13: 9780890966334
• Release Date: February 1995
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"