The race to save the Lord God Bird / by Phillip Hoose.
The race to save the Lord God Bird / by Phillip Hoose.
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Date
2004.
Call Numbers
NQ598.72/1
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Language
English
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Physical content
p. cm.
Contents
Important dates for the protection of birds, especially the Ivory-billed woodpecker.
Introduction : a bird of the sixth wave -- Prologue : the hostage : February 1809 -- Ch. 1. Specimen 60803 : February 2002 -- Ch. 2. Audubon on the Ivory-billed frontier : 1820-1835 -- Ch. 3. "The road to wealth leads through the south" : 1865-1900 -- Ch. 4. Two collectors : 1892-1894 -- Ch. 5. The...
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Publisher
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.
Edition
1st ed.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
2004.
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Summary
"Even in the early 1800s, when John James Audubon captured the Ivory-bill's likeness in his ground-breaking book The Birds of America, this species was beginning to disappear. A century later, it was presumed extinct." "The Ivory-bill's story sweeps through two hundred years of history, introducing artists, specimen collectors, lumber barons, plume...
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The race to save the Lord God Bird / by Phillip Hoose.
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"Melanie Kroupa Books."
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NQ598.72/1
Record Identifier
74VKqkJMqe6d
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKqkJMqe6d
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ISBN
0374361738
9780374361730
DDC
598.72
MMS ID
991020349489702626
