Camera hunter : George Shiras III and the birth of wildlife photography /

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"In 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic. Taken with crude equipment, the black-and-white photographs featured leaping whitetail deer, a beaver gnawing on a tree, and a snowy owl perched along the shore of a lake in Mic...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McCommons, James, 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2019.
Temas:
Shiras, George, > 1859-1942.
Shiras, George, > 1859-1942
United States. > Congress. > House > Biography.
United States. > Congress. > House
Legislators > United States > Biography.
Wildlife photographers > United States > Biography.
Wildlife conservationists > United States > Biography.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Biographies.
Photographes de la nature > États-Unis > Biographies.
Défenseurs de la faune > États-Unis > Biographies.
Legislators
Wildlife conservationists
Wildlife photographers
United States
Biographies
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Whitefish Lake
  • Pittsburgh roots
  • Boyhood days in Michigan
  • School days for blue bloods
  • Camera hunting
  • Pennsylvania politics
  • The great bird mystery
  • Camp life and camera traps
  • A progressive goes to Washington
  • The National Geographic Society
  • Ormond Beach
  • Bahamas, Mexico
  • Newfoundland and nature fakers
  • Eminent personalities
  • Yellowstone and the Shiras moose
  • The Kenai Peninsula
  • Roosevelt-Newett Libel Trial
  • The crusade to save birds
  • The Shiras bear
  • Gatun Lake and Panama
  • The bullet is on the way
  • The bird treaty
  • Yellowstone Dam fight
  • Kaibab Plateau
  • Final bird battles
  • The big book
  • Last days.

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