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"In Of a Feather, Scott Weidensaul skillfully traces the colorful history of American birding. Travel with the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes; meet the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; discover the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as convicted blackmailer Alexander Wilson and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon; and chart the progress of an awkward schoolteacher Roger Tory Peterson as he creates A Field Guide to the Birds, prompting the explosive growth of modern birding. Spirited and compulsively readable, Of a Feather celebrates the passions and achievements of birders, from the continent's fledgling ornithologists to the millions of Americans who have transformed a once eccentric occupation into one of our most beloved pursuits."--Page 4 of cover
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Of a Feather, Scott Weidensaul
- Language
- Released
- 2008
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Title
- Of a Feather
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Scott Weidensaul
- Publisher
- Mariner Books
- Released
- 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 368
- ISBN10
- 0156033550
- ISBN13
- 9780156033558
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, History, Nature, American History, Birds
- Rating
- 3.95 out of 5
- Description
- "In Of a Feather, Scott Weidensaul skillfully traces the colorful history of American birding. Travel with the frontier ornithologists who collected eggs between border skirmishes; meet the society matrons who organized the first effective conservation movement; discover the luminaries with checkered pasts, such as convicted blackmailer Alexander Wilson and the endlessly self-mythologizing John James Audubon; and chart the progress of an awkward schoolteacher Roger Tory Peterson as he creates A Field Guide to the Birds, prompting the explosive growth of modern birding. Spirited and compulsively readable, Of a Feather celebrates the passions and achievements of birders, from the continent's fledgling ornithologists to the millions of Americans who have transformed a once eccentric occupation into one of our most beloved pursuits."--Page 4 of cover