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Through deep research, acute perception, and lovely writing, Conevery Bolton Valencius has taken one of the great natural events of early America and made of it a revelation of its time-its scientific practice and thinking and its people's understanding of the land, of themselves, and even of their spirituality and relation to the divine. A masterful blend of the history of science and society. (Elliott West, University of Arkansas)

Through deep research, acute perception, and lovely writing, Conevery Bolton Valencius has taken one of the great natural events of early America and made of it a revelation of its time--its scientific practice and thinking and its people's understanding of the land, of themselves, and even of their spirituality and relation to the divine. A masterful blend of the history of science and society. <br>--Elliott West, University of Arkansas

"""Through deep research, acute perception, and lovely writing, Conevery Bolton Valencius has taken one of the great natural events of early America and made of it a revelation of its time-its scientific practice and thinking and its people's understanding of the land, of themselves, and even of their spirituality and relation to the divine. A masterful blend of the history of science and society."" (Elliott West, University of Arkansas)"""

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Coevery Bolton Valencius is assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches environmental history, history of science and medicine, and the American Civil War. She is the author of The Health of the Country: How American Settlers Understood Themselves and Their Land.

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