Birding with a Purpose: Of Raptors, Gabboons, and Other Creatures (signed)

Sprache: Englisch

Verlag: Iowa State UP, Ames, 1984

0813802288 / 9780813802282

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Signed on the title page by Hamerstrom and by the illustrator Jack Oar. Uncommon signed (her first book, An Eagle to the Sky, is common signed, but her other books seem the opposite). Birding with a Purpose is Hamerstrom's third memoir, following up on her exploration of her prairie chicken field work in Strictly for the Chickens with this book that's more generally about her passion for birds and her work especially with raptors. Her humor abides again. Hamerstrom broke away from an elite--and as she saw it, effete--background in Boston to become an important woman in ecology and conservation, the only woman to earn a graduate degree from Aldo Leopold (who encouraged her toward those chickens). Ultimately she was the author of a dozen books and more than 150 scientific papers. She twice won the Wildlife Society Award. With her late husband Frederick, she also won the 1971 National Wildlife Federation Award for Distinguished Service to Conservation, and she is a member of the Wisconsin Writers Hall of Fame. See her New York Times obit for more. Illustrated with photos and drawings throughout. A near fine book on account of one bump to lower front board edge, otherwise fine in a fine jacket, unread.…

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Bibliografische Details

Titel
Birding with a Purpose: Of Raptors, Gabboons, and Other Creatures (signed)
Autor
Hamerstrom, Frances [Jack Oar]
Verlag
Iowa State UP, Ames
Erscheinungsjahr
1984
Zustand
Near fine
Schutzumschlag
Fine
Signiert
Signed
Einband
Hardcover
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN-10
0813802288
ISBN-13
9780813802282
Auflage
First edition.
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Birds, Wildlife, Women in the Environment

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Visit us at www.ruralhours.com. Rural Hours (formerly Wood River Books) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature and science writing, the environment, ecopoetics, contemporary essay, and literary journalism, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. Our name is an homage to Susan Fenimore Cooper's book Rural Hours (1850), considered the first work of environmental nonfiction by an American woman. The daughter of James Fenimore Cooper, Susan Cooper was also an accomplished watercolorist, and her birds from Rural Hours populate these pages. Her rendering of a "chimney swallow" (now known as a swift) serves as our logo and mascot: sleek and elevated, part sky and part city street. Rural Hours is mainly a project of writer and teacher Nick Neely. Along with a pair of MFA degrees in nonfiction and poetry, Nick has a Master's in Literature and Environment from the University of Nevada, Reno. He has much expertise and years of experience in the field of eco-writing. His first book, Coast Range, was a finalist for John Burroughs Medal for nature writing and his second book, Alta California--about a 12-week trek he made along the California coast--was a Los Angeles Times bestseller. Check out the "Rambles" page for eventual short essays from him on environmental lit, new books, and more. Rural Hours is a young venture, but we aspire to be among the leaders in the field of rare and interesting eco-writing. We believe, emphatically, that environmental literature and its preservation is in the service of the preservation of the world. In addition to helping serious collectors and institutions build their libraries and archives, our goal is to curate a substantial "house collection" of environmental writing for public display on this site and beyond, one that shows the evolution of the genre(s). That will be a perennial work in progress. We hope to draw a deep, explorable map of environmental writing that traces the lineage and connections between authors and artists determined to render and protect the earth, locally and globally. At the same time, we would like to challenge the usual contours of the "environmental literature" canon and promote a more diverse and inclusive array of voices; in that way, our longterm goal is to excavate the past and curate toward the future. Rural Hours also hopes to eventually have an open shop and gallery space, but for now we are only online. You've come to the right the place. Enjoy poking around, and then head out for a walk.…