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In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker

Categorie	Algemeen Vogels
Boeknummer	#365662-XL16
Titel	In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker
Auteur	Jackson, Jerome A.
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	London : Harper Perennial
Jaar van uitgave	2006
ISBN10	0060891556
ISBN13	9780060891558
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, illustrations in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	In Search of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker is a complete natural history of one of the most exciting and rare birds in the world. Noted ornithologist Jerome A. Jackson takes the reader on his fantastic and personal quest, providing detailed insights into the bird's lifestyle, habitat, and cultural significance, examining its iconic status from the late 1800s to the present in advertising, conservation, and lore. As he relates searches for the bird by John James Audubon, Alexander Wilson, and others, Jackson offers anecdotal tales illuminating the methods of early naturalists, including how one captive ivory-bill destroyed a naturalist's hotel room in a desperate attempt to escape. Jackson's search for one of the few remaining ivory-bills takes him across the United States and into Cuba. A ne... (Lees verder)w epilogue disputes the putative rediscovery of the bird in April 2005.
Pagina's	322
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 20,00

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