Table of Contents:
  • Ecology, the New World, and the "American" Adam
  • A New World poetics
  • reading Whitman in the New World
  • Nature's last chemistry in Leaves of grass
  • Natural history as autobiography
  • Hemispheric history as natural history
  • The muse of (natural) history
  • Impressionism in the New World
  • Death, regeneration, and the prospect of extinction.