Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose: natural history in early America.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Octavo, illustrations, dustwrapper. In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledging republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de..... More