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Fire and fauna : tales of a life untamed
- Title
- Fire and fauna : tales of a life untamed / Joan E. Berish.
- Author
- Berish, Joan E.
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-5531 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- x, 235 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Integrative natural history series
- Uniform Title
- Integrative natural history series.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Series information from dust jacket.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 21-5531
- ISBN
- 9781623498313
- 1623498317
- LCCN
- 2019021682
- 40029538735
- OCLC
- 1099947439
- Author
- Berish, Joan E., author.
- Title
- Fire and fauna : tales of a life untamed / Joan E. Berish.
- Publisher
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Integrative natural history seriesIntegrative natural history series.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029538735
- Research Call Number
- JFE 21-5531