Author: James FisherPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
James Fisher and Roger Tory Peterson's World of Birds
Author: James FisherRoger Tory Peterson
Author: Douglas CarlsonPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292752857
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Beginning with his 1934 Field Guide to the Birds, Roger Tory Peterson introduced literally millions of people to the pleasures of observing birds in the wild. His field guide, which has gone through five editions and sold more than four million copies, fostered an appreciation for the natural world that set the stage for the contemporary environmental movement. When Rachel Carson's Silent Spring sounded a warning about the threat to birds and their habitats in the 1960s, the Peterson field guides had already prepared the public and the scientific community to heed the warning and fight to save habitat and protect endangered species—a result that Peterson wholeheartedly approved. In this authoritative, highly readable biography of Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), Douglas Carlson creates a fascinating portrait of the complex, often conflicted man behind the brand name. He describes how Peterson's obsession with birds began in boyhood and continued throughout a multifaceted career as a painter, writer, educator, environmentalist, and photographer. Carlson traces Peterson's long struggle to become both an accomplished bird artist and a scientific naturalist—competing goals that drove Peterson to work to the point of exhaustion and that also deprived him of many aspects of a normal personal life. Carlson also records Peterson's many lasting achievements, from the phenomenal success of the field guides, to the bird paintings that brought him renown as "the twentieth century's Audubon," to the establishment of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute to carry on his work in conservation and education.
James Fisher and Roger Tory Peterson's World of birds
Author: James FisherBirds
Author: Roger Tory PetersonPublisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780395911778
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Features the unique Peterson Identification System, which has never been surpassed as a tool for field identification and is available only in Peterson Guides. "The Birder's Bible" for over sixty years. All the birds of eastern and central North America--including accidentals, exotics, and escapes--shown in full color and described in detail. 390 complete, easy-to-read range maps showing summer and winter ranges, breeding grounds, and other special range information. Easy-to-use facing-page format.
Wild America
Author: Roger Tory PetersonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395864975
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
An illustrated 30,000-mile tour of the continent.
Birdwatcher
Author: Elizabeth RosenthalPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1599216442
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
[2015 Reprint] Roger Tory Peterson—the Renaissance man who taught Americans the joy of watching birds—also invented the modern field guide. His 1934 landmark Field Guide to the Birds was the first book designed to go outdoors and help people identify the elements of nature. This self-proclaimed “student of nature” combined spectacular writing with detailed illustrations to ultimately publish many other books, winning every possible award and medal for natural science, ornithology, and conservation. Birdwatcher is a comprehensive, illustrated biography of Roger Tory Peterson--a hero in the conservation world--including interviews with friends, family, and protégés.
The World of Roger Tory Peterson
Author: John C. DevlinPublisher: Crown
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
All Things Reconsidered
Author: Roger Tory PetersonPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547527802
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Roger Tory Peterson’s unique perspective on birding comes to life in these highly personal narratives. Here he relates his adventures during a lifetime of birding and traveling the world to observe and record nature. Though Peterson was widely known for his illustrations, this collection reminds us to reconsider his accomplishments as a photographer, for Peterson was nearly as passionate about photography as he was about painting. The essays and photographs included here were carefully selected by Bill Thompson III, the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest, which ran the column “All Things Reconsidered” during the last twelve years of Peterson’s life.
Return to Wild America
Author: Scott WeidensaulPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429931922
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
In 1953, birding guru Roger Tory Peterson and noted British naturalist James Fisher set out on what became a legendary journey-a one hundred day trek over 30,000 miles around North America. They traveled from Newfoundland to Florida, deep into the heart of Mexico, through the Southwest, the Pacific Northwest, and into Alaska's Pribilof Islands. Two years later, Wild America, their classic account of the trip, was published. On the eve of that book's fiftieth anniversary, naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces Peterson and Fisher's steps to tell the story of wild America today. How has the continent's natural landscape changed over the past fifty years? How have the wildlife, the rivers, and the rugged, untouched terrain fared? The journey takes Weidensaul to the coastal communities of Newfoundland, where he examines the devastating impact of the Atlantic cod fishery's collapse on the ecosystem; to Florida, where he charts the virtual extinction of the great wading bird colonies that Peterson and Fisher once documented; to the Mexican tropics of Xilitla, which have become a growing center of ecotourism since Fisher and Peterson's exposition. And perhaps most surprising of all, Weidensaul finds that much of what Peterson and Fisher discovered remains untouched by the industrial developments of the last fifty years. Poised to become a classic in its own right, Return to Wild America is a sweeping survey of the natural soul of North America today.
Roger Tory Peterson
Author: Roger Tory PetersonPublisher: Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Survey of the career of orinthologist Roger Tory Peterson, featuring the paintings, prints, book illustrations, photographs, and films he created in his quest to study birds.