"A long needed biography of the pioneering American naturalist whose explorations and collecting were so influential in the founding of American natural history." --Nina J. Root, American Museum of Na
"The best book on Years and the best book of American literary criticism informed by critical theory to appear since Harold Bloom’s Years."--Daniel T. O’Hara, Temple University"An important study of a
In 2010, artist and biologist Brandon Ballengée saw firsthand the largest environmental disaster in United States history—the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Within this book are his visual responses to
From the Foreword by Paul B. Niell:“To decolonize refinement, to us, is to critique the role of visual and material culture in the constitution of the coloniality of power from 1492 to the present fro
