Author: Jeffrey A. Lockwood
Publisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0786738871
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country." From the Dakotas to Texas, from California to Iowa, the swarms pushed thousands of settlers to the brink of starvation, prompting the federal government to enlist some of the greatest scientific minds of the day and thereby jumpstarting the fledgling science of entomology. Over the next few decades, the Rocky Mountain locust suddenly -- and mysteriously -- vanished. A century later, Jeffrey Lockwood set out to discover why. Unconvinced by the reigning theories, he searched for new evidence in musty books, crumbling maps, and crevassed glaciers, eventually piecing together the elusive answer: A group of early settlers unwittingly destroyed the locust's sanctuaries just as the insect was experiencing a natural population crash. Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Locust brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest ecological mysteries of our time.
Locust
The Locust Plague in the United States
Author: Charles Valentine Riley
Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
ISBN:
Category : Locusts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Publisher: Chicago : Rand, McNally
ISBN:
Category : Locusts
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Rocky Mountain Locust
Author: Charles Valentine Riley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insects
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
The Rocky Mountain Locust
Author: Charles Valentine Riley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rocky Mountain locust
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rocky Mountain locust
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
The Rocky Mountain Locust
The Rocky Mountain Locust, Or Grasshopper
The Rocky Mountain Locust
Report on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Other Insects Now Injuring Or Likely to Injure Field and Garden Crops in the Western States and Territories
Author: Alpheus Spring Packard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beneficial insects
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Grasshopper, Or Rocky Mountain Locust, and Its Ravages in Minnesota
Rocky Mountain Locust
Author: M. I. Lastman
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 146024799X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
An Environmental Novel Elderly Jim Easom finds himself alone, having inexplicably survived a devastating pandemic. He sets out on an odyssey across the continent from his home in now-deserted Southern Ontario hoping to reach the Northwest Territories, to find other survivors, and to build a new home. He adopts just two: a sheltie puppy, and a thirteen-year-old girl. They, like him, have suffered much, with more sorrow to come. Together they make their way, trying to adapt to the shattering new world reality. Their story provides the framework for a critical analysis of the man-made crisis of the biosphere.
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 146024799X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
An Environmental Novel Elderly Jim Easom finds himself alone, having inexplicably survived a devastating pandemic. He sets out on an odyssey across the continent from his home in now-deserted Southern Ontario hoping to reach the Northwest Territories, to find other survivors, and to build a new home. He adopts just two: a sheltie puppy, and a thirteen-year-old girl. They, like him, have suffered much, with more sorrow to come. Together they make their way, trying to adapt to the shattering new world reality. Their story provides the framework for a critical analysis of the man-made crisis of the biosphere.