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American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press Susan Scott Parrish New edition
American Curiosity: Cultures of Natural History in the Colonial British Atlantic World - Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Susan Scott Parrish
Examines how various people in the British colonies understood and represented the natural world around them from the late sixteenth century through the eighteenth. The author uncovers early descriptions of American natural phenomena as well as clues to how people in the colonies construed their own identities through the natural world.
352 pages, 32 illustrations, notes index
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | February 27, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780807856789 |
| Publishers | The University of North Carolina Press |
| Pages | 344 |
| Dimensions | 156 × 235 × 21 mm · 498 g |
| Language | English |
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