More Than Birds

More Than Birds
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Publisher : Dundurn
Total Pages : 297
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ISBN-10 : 9781459705593
ISBN-13 : 1459705599
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Book Synopsis More Than Birds by : Val Shushkewich

Download or read book More Than Birds written by Val Shushkewich and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-11-17 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two profiles of significant naturalists, beginning with 19th-century Alexander Wilson and John James Audubon and including Jack Miner, Roger Tory Peterson, Robert Bateman, and David Allen Sibley, portray the development of natural heritage studies in North America. Their extraordinary stories inspire recognition of the need for conservation.


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