Theodore Roosevelt in the Field
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (939 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022629837X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 472 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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"one of the best books ever on how to see and how to" according to Anya Peterson Royce. A spectacular follow-up to Canfield's edited volume Field Notes on Nature and Science, one of the best books ever on how to see and how to describe.. philip morse said I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Having read some books by TR and about TR, I was always curious to know more about TR the enigma. I was looking for more depth behind the character of the man. Michael Canfield has provided the depth I was in search of in his, Theodore Roosevelt In The Field. Canfield’s writing is appealing to me. Theodore Roosevelt In The Field weaves new threads of understanding into the storyline of. Superb biography of Roosevelt from a previously unexplored viewpoint I've read several biographies of Teddy Roosevelt, including Edmund Morris's three volume biography, Douglas Brinkley's Wilderness Warrior, and Doris Kearns Goodwin's The Bully Pulpit. Morris's and Goodwin's biographies were excellent but focused almost entirely on Roosevelt's political life. Although Brinkley's biography is an in-depth study of Roosevelt and the rise of conservation in Ameri
“While other authors have explored Theodore Roosevelt’s time in the Badlands or his love of nature, Canfield is the first to highlight a distinct pattern in Roosevelt’s life. Instead, Roosevelt engaged with the outdoors with his entire being, simultaneously as a natural scientist, intellectual, and writer. Roosevelt did not just experience the outdoors in an ad hoc manner, flitting to and from dilettantish forays in the American West, Africa, or the . For every formative moment Roosevelt spent in politics, Canfield rightly points out that there existed an equally formative moment spent ‘in the field.’”
When we picture him, he's on horseback or standing at a cliff’s edge or dressed for safari. Canfield reveals in Theodore Roosevelt in the Field, throughout his life Roosevelt consistently took to the field as a naturalist, hunter, writer, soldier, and conservationist, and it is in the field where his passion for science and nature, his belief in the manly, “strenuous life,” and his drive for empire all came together. Throughout, we see how the seemingly contradictory aspects of Roosevelt’s biography as a hunter and a naturalist are actually complementary traits of a man eager to directly understand and experience the environment around him. As our connection to the natural wor