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Fire and Fauna : Tales of a Life Untamed /
"Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan E. Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. From Fire to Fauna is a unique, educational, and often humorous memoir reflecting the life of a woman in the field of wildlife conservation and her associated escapades early in l...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2019]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 264 | 1 | |a College Station : |b Texas A & M University Press, |c [2019] | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2020 | |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Integrative natural history series | |
| 500 | |a Series information from dust jacket. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1. Evolution of a "wild biologist": Child of the fields and forests -- A horse, a horse: my kingdom (lunch money) for a horse -- Would dog bite (mail) woman? -- Going nuclear at the Veterans Administration -- Canines and felines and ... Willie Nelson? -- Whirlybirds and conflagrations: My summer as a helitack firefighter -- Part 2. Metamorphosis: from snake lady to gopher queen: Indigo daze: The snake lady goes down to Georgia -- Ancient dunes, black holes, and burrowing turtles -- A new life partner and many more moons of gopher wrangling -- Rattlers and softshells and bears, oh my! -- Canines in conservation and in my heart -- Part 3. Modifications to my home range, both temporary and permanent: Misadventures on desert trails and high seas -- My return to the land of enchantment. | |
| 520 | |a "Wildlife biologist and gopher tortoise expert Joan E. Berish has spent her life studying and appreciating animals. From Fire to Fauna is a unique, educational, and often humorous memoir reflecting the life of a woman in the field of wildlife conservation and her associated escapades early in life and today. Berish recounts her eventful and sometimes absurd journey to become a wildlife researcher. Outrunning treetop flames, spending a night in jail with a threatened species, and surviving a stalled airplane engine while searching for a missing tortoise, Berish introduces readers to the adventures, triumphs, and heartbreaks that comprise a lifetime of working with animals, animals, both domestic and wild"-- |c Provided by publisher | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 650 | 6 | |a Gopherus polyphemus |x Conservation |z Floride. | |
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