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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780156033558
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 it’s (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 Birds” prompted the explosive growth of modern
birding. Spirited and compulsively readable, “Of a Feather
“celebrates the passions and achievements of birders throughout
Americcan history.
1 ”Birds… more beautiful than in Europe”
2 ”Except three or four, I do not know them”
3 Pushing West
4 Shotgun Ornithology
5 Ladies
6 Becoming a Noun
7 Death to Miss Hathaway
8 Beyond the List
Acknowledgments
Notes and Bibliography
Index
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