TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nicholls,Steve
TI  - Paradise found: nature in America at the time of discovery 
SN  - 9780226583402 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - QH102 .N53 2009
U1  - 508.7 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Natural history
KW  - North America
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - History
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Environmental conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [461]-493) and index; 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?
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0825/2008036076.html
ER  -