The Explorer King

Name: The Explorer King
Author: Robert Wilson
ISBN: 9781593761615

by Robert Wilson (2006)

Read Free Sample Buy on Amazon Audible Free Trial

About this book

A portrait of a scientist-explorer whose mountain-scaling, desert-crossing, river-fording, blizzard-surviving adventures helped create the new West of the nineteenth century. King in his youth was an icon of the new America: a man of both action and intellect, who combined science and adventure with romanticism and charm. He went west in 1863 at age 21 as a geologist-explorer. During the next decade he scaled the Sierra Nevada, published a book now considered an adventure classic, initiated a groundbreaking land survey, and ultimately uncovered one of the greatest frauds of the century--the Great Diamond Hoax--making him an international celebrity at a time when there were few. The book also provides the bigger picture of the West at this time, showing the ways in which the terrain was measured and charted and mastered, and how science, politics, and business began to intersect and influence one another during this era.--From publisher description.

Setting / LocationGlobal

Story EraModern Era

Protagonist / CoreThe Explorer King Lead Character

Themes & Moods

Biography & Memoir Biography Geologists Intellectual life King, clarence, 1842-1901 United states, intellectual life Modern Era

Readers who enjoyed this also loved

Darwin

Jonathan Howard

"Darwin's theory of evolution, which implied that our ancestors were apes, caused a furore in the scientific world and beyond when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Arguments still rage about the implications of his evolutionary theory, and scepticism about the value of Darwin's contribution to knowledge is widespread. In this analysis of Darwin's major insights and arguments, Jonathan Howard reasserts the importance of Darwin's work for the development of modern science and culture."--BOOK JACKET.

Hermann Günther Grassmann (1809-1877)

Gert Schubring

In this volume specialists from several disciplines present the first comprehensive, readily-accessible analysis of Grassmann's thought, its historical context and emergence, its reception, and its continuing influence on many branches of learning. The book addresses a general public in mathematics, physics, and linguistics, including graduate students in these fields, as well as historians of these disciples.

Janet Frame's kingdom by the sea--Oamaru

Sheila Leaver-Cooper

"Throughout this book I have tried to differentiate between fact and fiction, referring first to the real places Janet Frame describes in her autobiographies and then to the scenes she has created in her novels and short stories"--Introd.

The penny poet of Portsmouth

Katherine Towler

"The Penny Poet of Portsmouth is a memoir of the author's friendship with Robert Dunn, a brilliant poet who spent most of his life off the grid in downtown Portsmouth, New Hampshire...It is the fable of a shared journey and a portrait of an abiding friendship--a fitting tribute to the Penny Poet of Portsmouth."--Dust jacket, p.[2]