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Beaverland : how one weird rodent made America

2022

Title:	Beaverland : how one weird rodent made America / Leila Philip.
Author:	Philip, Leila, author.
Format:	Book
Edition:	First edition.
Publisher, Date:	New York, NY : Twelve, 2022. ©2022
Description:	xv, 317 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Summary:	"In the rich naturalist tradition of H Is for Hawk and The Soul of an Octopus, Beaverland tells the tumultuous, eye-opening story of how beavers and the beaver fur trade shaped America's history, culture, and environment.
Subjects:	Fur trade -- United States -- History. Beavers -- United States -- History. Wildlife conservation -- United States -- History.
Other Title:	Beaver land How one weird rodent made America
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 282-292) and index.
Contents:	Prologue: Ktsi Amiskw, the story of Great Beaver -- At the beaver pond -- On the trap line -- Looking for Astor in Astoria -- Man's land -- Wild fur -- Beaversprite -- Lewis Henry Morgan and the great beaver dam -- Kitaiksisskstaki and the story of the beaver bundle -- The underwater people -- Beavers in the White Mountains -- The beaverhood -- Stone walls -- Thinking like a watershed -- Teale's beavers -- Kintsugi -- Epilogue: The story of the book.
ISBN:	9781538755198 9781538755204
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Leila Philip is the author of award-winning books of nonfiction that have received national glowing reviews. A Guggenheim Fellow, she has also been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Philip was a contributing columnist at the Boston Globe and teaches in the Environmental Studies Program at the College of the Holy Cross, where she is a professor in the English Department. - (Grand Central Pub)

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