Of a Feather : A Brief History of American Birding

English

ISBN: 0156033550

EAN: 9780156033558

Category: Nature / Birds & Birdwatching/Science / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ornithology/

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

Release Date: 09/30/2008

Synopsis: Arriving in the New World, Europeans were awestruck by a continent awash with birds. Today tens of millions of Americans birders have made a once eccentric hobby into something so mainstream its (almost) cool.Scott Weidensaul traces the colorful evolution of American birding: from the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes to the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; from the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as convicted blackmailer Alexander Wilson and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon, to the awkward schoolteacher Roger Tory Peterson, whose A Field Guide to the Birdsprompted the explosive growth of modern birding. Spirited and compulsively readable, Of a Feathercelebrates the passions and achievements of birders throughout Americcan history.

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Of a Feather : A Brief History of American Birding

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.9 inches

Width: 5.31 inches

Length: 8.0 inches

Weight: 13.62 oz

Pages: 368