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Afield: Forty Years of Birding the American West
Alan Contreras
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Description for Afield: Forty Years of Birding the American West
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; WNCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 9. Weight in Grams: 254.
For forty years, Alan Contreras has studied birds and natural history in the West. In Afield, he recounts his bird-watching experiences? primarily in Oregon, but also in Alaska, Arizona, California, and Texas. Sprinkled with comments made by ornithologists and early explorers of the West, his essays offer elements of natural history, personal memoir, and adventure travel. In the largest sense, Afield is a love story, reaffirming the practice of unhurried observation of nature. It is a chronicle of growing up as a person interested in the natural world. From encounters with Oregon's first Eurasian Dotterel to the inspiring but unsuccessful ... Read more
For forty years, Alan Contreras has studied birds and natural history in the West. In Afield, he recounts his bird-watching experiences? primarily in Oregon, but also in Alaska, Arizona, California, and Texas. Sprinkled with comments made by ornithologists and early explorers of the West, his essays offer elements of natural history, personal memoir, and adventure travel. In the largest sense, Afield is a love story, reaffirming the practice of unhurried observation of nature. It is a chronicle of growing up as a person interested in the natural world. From encounters with Oregon's first Eurasian Dotterel to the inspiring but unsuccessful ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Oregon State University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Corvallis, OR, United States
ISBN
9780870714207
SKU
V9780870714207
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99-1
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