Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone

Verlag: The World Publishing Company, Cleveland, 1969

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Inscribed on the blue front free endpaper in the year of publication: "For one Yellow Bird from the other, with a great deal of love, Margie, July 1969." Also signed on the title page with a separate pen (although a nickname is used in the inscription, we are sure it's also Sanger based on a comparison of handwriting samples). Uncommon signed. Marjory Bartlett Sanger was a mid-century naturalist writer from Florida. She was an ornithologist (a member of the AOU and many other bird organizations) with a specialty on herons and the author of 11 books, most of them about birds and their habitats along with one interpretive biography of William Bartram. Her other nonfiction books on ecology includeCypress Country, World of the Great White Heron, Mangrove Island, andForest in the Sand.She graduate from Wellesley College and was the editor of Mass Audubon'sBulletinbefore she moved back to Florida, where she was an administrator and teacher at an Audubon Society camp in addition to her writing. Checkerback's Journeyis her fourth book and her second work of nonfiction. It follows a ruddy turnstone on its migration from Martinique to the Arctic tundras and "tells the fascinating story of the ecology of our entire Atlantic seacoast." See this short original review of the book in The New York Times.With an illustration on almost every page by Betty Fraser. A nice collaboration between women. A small quarto in mustard cloth. A very good book on account of a hard bump to lower corner that split the cloth about a quarter inch at the front hinge, otherwise near fine. In a very good jacket with a short tear in that same spot, toning, darkening to spine, a few scattered stains.…

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Titel
Checkerback's Journey: The Migration of the Ruddy Turnstone
Autor
Sanger, Marjory Bartlett (signed); Betty Fraser (illustrator)
Verlag
The World Publishing Company, Cleveland
Erscheinungsjahr
1969
Zustand
Very good
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Very good
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Hardcover
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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.…