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Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose

Paperback • 2019 • 1. edition

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose

By Lee Alan Dugatkin

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In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling 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 Buffon, who wrote that the flora and fauna of America (humans included) were inferior to European specimens. Thomas Jefferson--author of the Declaration of Independence, U.S. president, and ardent naturalist--spent years co...Show more

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9780226639109

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The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2019

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1

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Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose

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Paperback

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