Nature's Management Writings on Landscape and Reform, 1822-1859 |
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| Author:
| Ruffin, Edmund |
| Editor:
| Kirby, Jack Temple |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8203-2837-9 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2006 |
| Publisher: | University of Georgia Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $32.95 |
Book Description:
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History remembers Edmund Ruffin as the Virginia native believed to have fired the first shot against Fort Sumter in 1861. This volume of Ruffin's work offers us his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. In carefully edited selections from his writings, Kirby presents an innovative agronomist and pioneering conservationist.
History remembers Edmund Ruffin as the Virginia native believed to have fired the first shot against Fort Sumter in 1861. This volume of Ruffin's work offers us his less known but equally intense passion for agricultural study. In carefully edited selections from his writings, Kirby presents an innovative agronomist and pioneering conservationist.