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Author's Note to the Paperback Edition vii
Preface and Acknowledgments xi
In a Nutshell 3
The Education of a Classicist 5
A Clerk in the Cosmos 11
Of Mastodons and Mathematics: The Cohoes Potholes 17
Cracking the Nutshell 20
"Astride the occidental mule" 22
A Volunteer Assistant 22
"Labels written by the Creator": John Strong Newberry 28
"Hydrographical peculiarities" 34
West with Wheeler 37
"A systematic approach": The Geology of a Reconnaissance 51
The Lieutenant and the Major 57
The Major Years 64
"The western fever" 64
By Virtue of Its Ensemble: Powell, Dutton, Gilbert 72
"Certain allied problems in mechanics": The Henry Mountains 83
Languages for a New Geology: Mechanics, Mathematics, Literature 95
The Society of a Geologist 103
A Great Engine of Research 108
The Division of the Great Basin 108
The Revolving Chair: Chief Geologist of the U.S. Geological Survey 113
The Scientist as Aristocrat: George Ferdinand Becker 126
LakeBonneville 134
Time's Ratio: The Meaning of Geologic History 145
"A little daft on the subject of the moon" 152
The Great Basin Mess 160
Grade 167
A "buried star" 167
The Mean Plain 179
The Inculcation of Scientific Method 186
The Text for a University Science: Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin 193
An Elder Statesman 201
The Inculcation of Grove Karl Gilbert 203
Geophysics in the Giant Forest 203
Gilbert the Glaciologist 219
Gilbert the Geophysicist 226
Gilbert the Geomorphologist 236
The Cycle of Erosion: William Morris Davis 254
A New Life 262
Notes 269
Sources 291
Biographical Memoirs 295
Index 296
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Jose N M Paulino
reviewed Grove Karl Gilbert on December 08, 2012
Grove Karl Gilbert
In the book The Explorer King, by Robert Wilson is a biography of Clarence King. This biography is about the Scientist-Explorer Clarence King who helped create the West of the nineteenth century. Clarence King became a celebrity after exposing a fraud known as The Great Diamond Hoax. Clarence King in having a sense of adventure, tells of amusing stories, some that are true, and some that are exaggerated. Such as, him escaping an attack by Indians, being chased by bandits for two days, and him surviving a huge blizzard near Yosemite.
In my opinion, this book was a good book and I like how it gave many vivid descriptions of the stories. Such as, when Clarence King was hiking in Yosemite, the book writes, " Snow blew in every direction, filling our eyes and blinding the poor mules, who often turned quickly from some sudden gust, and refused to go on" (Wilson 154).
I enjoyed this book, and I would recommend this book to anyone who likes biographies and reading stories of adventure and discovery. This biography really shows Clarence King's personality and adventure in really vivid ways.
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