Author: John James Audubon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486276090
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Brilliant sampling of ornithological masterpieces by America's greatest painter of wildlife: whooping crane, great blue heron, roseate spoonbill, American white pelican, wild turkey, and American flamingo. Drawn with Audubon's characteristic accuracy and passion for detail, all appear in natural habitats, in realistic poses.
Six Audubon Bird Postcards
Author: John James Audubon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486276090
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Brilliant sampling of ornithological masterpieces by America's greatest painter of wildlife: whooping crane, great blue heron, roseate spoonbill, American white pelican, wild turkey, and American flamingo. Drawn with Audubon's characteristic accuracy and passion for detail, all appear in natural habitats, in realistic poses.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486276090
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Brilliant sampling of ornithological masterpieces by America's greatest painter of wildlife: whooping crane, great blue heron, roseate spoonbill, American white pelican, wild turkey, and American flamingo. Drawn with Audubon's characteristic accuracy and passion for detail, all appear in natural habitats, in realistic poses.
Audubon and His Journals
Author: John James Audubon
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486283920
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Volume II features Audubon's Missouri River journals, June 4–August 7, 1843, plus more than 300 pages of "Episodes": "The Earthquake," "The Hurricane," "The Burning of the Forests," "Death of a Pirate," "A Moose Hunt," and many other exciting, eye-opening, and sometimes brutal accounts of humans versus nature in a bygone era. 24 illustrations.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486283920
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Volume II features Audubon's Missouri River journals, June 4–August 7, 1843, plus more than 300 pages of "Episodes": "The Earthquake," "The Hurricane," "The Burning of the Forests," "Death of a Pirate," "A Moose Hunt," and many other exciting, eye-opening, and sometimes brutal accounts of humans versus nature in a bygone era. 24 illustrations.
The Publishers Weekly
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
Audubon
Bird-lore
Black Postcards
Author: Dean Wareham
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143115489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A bewitching memoir about the lures, torments, and rewards of making and performing music in the indie rock world Dean Wareham's seminal bands Galaxie 500 and Luna have long been adored by a devoted cult following and extolled by rock critics. Now he brings us the blunt, heartbreaking, and wickedly charismatic account of his personal journey through the music world-the artistry and the hustle, the effortless success and the high living, as well as the bitter pills and self-inflicted wounds. It captures, unsparingly, what has happened to the entire ecosystem of popular music over a time of radical change, when categories such as "indie" and "alternative" meant nothing to those creating the music, but everything to the major labels willing to pay for it. Black Postcards is a must-have for Wareham's many fans, anyone who has ever been in a band, or the listeners who have taken an interest in the indie rock scene over the last twenty years.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780143115489
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A bewitching memoir about the lures, torments, and rewards of making and performing music in the indie rock world Dean Wareham's seminal bands Galaxie 500 and Luna have long been adored by a devoted cult following and extolled by rock critics. Now he brings us the blunt, heartbreaking, and wickedly charismatic account of his personal journey through the music world-the artistry and the hustle, the effortless success and the high living, as well as the bitter pills and self-inflicted wounds. It captures, unsparingly, what has happened to the entire ecosystem of popular music over a time of radical change, when categories such as "indie" and "alternative" meant nothing to those creating the music, but everything to the major labels willing to pay for it. Black Postcards is a must-have for Wareham's many fans, anyone who has ever been in a band, or the listeners who have taken an interest in the indie rock scene over the last twenty years.
Oology and Ralph's Talking Eggs
Author: Carrol L. Henderson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292714513
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Before modern binoculars and cameras made it possible to observe birds closely in the wild, many people collected eggs as a way of learning about birds. Serious collectors called their avocation “oology” and kept meticulous records for each set of eggs: the bird’s name, the species reference number, the quantity of eggs in the clutch, the date and location where the eggs were collected, and the collector’s name. These documented egg collections, which typically date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, now provide an important baseline from which to measure changes in the numbers, distribution, and nesting patterns of many species of birds. In Oology and Ralph’s Talking Eggs, Carrol L. Henderson uses the vast egg collection of Ralph Handsaker, an Iowa farmer, as the starting point for a fascinating account of oology and its role in the origins of modern birdwatching, scientific ornithology, and bird conservation in North America. Henderson describes Handsaker’s and other oologists’ collecting activities, which included not only gathering bird eggs in the wild but also trading and purchasing eggs from collectors around the world. Henderson then spotlights sixty of the nearly five hundred bird species represented in the Handsaker collection, using them to tell the story of how birds such as the Snowy Egret, Greater Prairie Chicken, Atlantic Puffin, and Wood Duck have fared over the past hundred years or so since their eggs were gathered. Photos of the eggs and historical drawings and photos of the birds illustrate each species account. Henderson also links these bird histories to major milestones in bird conservation and bird protection laws in North America from 1875 to the present.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292714513
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Before modern binoculars and cameras made it possible to observe birds closely in the wild, many people collected eggs as a way of learning about birds. Serious collectors called their avocation “oology” and kept meticulous records for each set of eggs: the bird’s name, the species reference number, the quantity of eggs in the clutch, the date and location where the eggs were collected, and the collector’s name. These documented egg collections, which typically date from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, now provide an important baseline from which to measure changes in the numbers, distribution, and nesting patterns of many species of birds. In Oology and Ralph’s Talking Eggs, Carrol L. Henderson uses the vast egg collection of Ralph Handsaker, an Iowa farmer, as the starting point for a fascinating account of oology and its role in the origins of modern birdwatching, scientific ornithology, and bird conservation in North America. Henderson describes Handsaker’s and other oologists’ collecting activities, which included not only gathering bird eggs in the wild but also trading and purchasing eggs from collectors around the world. Henderson then spotlights sixty of the nearly five hundred bird species represented in the Handsaker collection, using them to tell the story of how birds such as the Snowy Egret, Greater Prairie Chicken, Atlantic Puffin, and Wood Duck have fared over the past hundred years or so since their eggs were gathered. Photos of the eggs and historical drawings and photos of the birds illustrate each species account. Henderson also links these bird histories to major milestones in bird conservation and bird protection laws in North America from 1875 to the present.
The Quadrupeds of North America
Bird Lore
Annual Report of the National Association of Audubon Societies for ...
Author: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Publisher:
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Category : Audubon societies
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Audubon societies
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description