Victor Emanuel, S. Kirk Walsh

One More Warbler: A Life with Birds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

With stories of sighting rare birds ranging from an Eskimo Curlew to the cranes of Asia, one of America's foremost birders recalls a lifetime of birding adventures, including friendships with luminaries Roger Tory Peterson, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Briscoe Ctr for Amer History Ut-Austin
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781477312384
• ISBN-10: 1477312382
• Artikelnr.: 46605731

Autorenporträt

By Victor Emanuel, with S. Kirk Walsh

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. Early Days
2. The Tropics
3. Freeport Christmas Count
4. The Bird of My Life
5. Beginnings
6. Meeting Curlew
7. The Triumph
8. Search for the Imperial Woodpecker
9. My Travels with King Penguin
10. The Mozart of Birding
11. New Territories
12. The Big Day
13. The Next Generation of Birders
14. End of the Earth
15. The Birds Of Heaven: Cranes, Asia, and Peter
16. Birding with the Bushes
17. Palace on Wheels
18. Birding on the Edge
19. Voyage on the Sea Cloud
20. My True Obsession
21. My World
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Suggested Readings
Index