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Spare the Birds! : George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. The magazine constituted one of the first effo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Merchant, Carolyn
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; PART I. George Bird Grinnell's Audubon Society; 1. Lucy and John James Audubon's Influence on Grinnell; 2. Grinnell's Audubon Society; PART II. George Bird Grinnell's Writings on John James Audubon and Alexander Wilson in The Audubon Magazine; 3. Introduction to Grinnell's Writings; 4. The Life of John James Audubon; 5. The Character of John James Audubon; 6. Incidents of Audubon's Life; 7. Audubonian Sketches; 8. Biography of Alexander Wilson; PART III. Grinnell's Monthly Birds in The Audubon Magazine, 1887-1889.
  • 9. Introduction to Grinnell's Monthly Birds10. Grinnell's Monthly Birds I; 11. Grinnell's Monthly Birds II; 12. Epilogue: Grinnell's Achievements; APPENDIXES; 1. Other Early and Recent Biographies of Audubon; 2. Producing Audubon's Birds of America and Grinnell's Monthly Birds; 3. Timeline: Alexander Wilson; 4. Timeline: John James Audubon and Lucy Bakewell Audubon; 5. Timeline: George Bird Grinnell; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; Y.