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The race to save the Lord God Bird
- Title
- The race to save the Lord God Bird / Phillip Hoose.
- Author
- Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
- Publication
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2004.
- Supplementary Content
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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 | JFF 05-1042 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Text | Request in advance | J 598.72 H | Offsite |
Details
- Description
- 196 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Tells the story of the ivory-billed woodpecker's extinction in the United States, describing the encounters between this species and humans, and discussing what these encounters have taught us about preserving endangered creatures.
- Subjects
- Note
- "Melanie Kroupa Books."
- Contents
- Introduction: Bird of the sixth wave -- Prologue: Hostage - February 1809 -- Specimen 60803 - February 2002 -- Audubon on the ivory-billed Frontier - 1820-1835 -- "Road to wealth leads through the south" - 1865-1900 -- Two collectors - 1892-1894 -- Plume war - 1870-1920 -- Learning to Think like a bird - 1914-1934 -- Shooting with a mike - 1935 -- Camp Ephilus - 1935 -- Wanted: America's Rarest bird - 1937-1939 -- Last ivory-bill forest - December 1937-October 1938 -- Race to save the lord god bird - 1941-1943 -- Visiting with Eternity - 1943-1944 -- Carpintero real: Between science and magic - 1985-1987 -- Return of the ghost bird? - 1986-2002 -- Maps: Collapsing forest -- Mapping the loss of ivory-bill habitat -- Epilogue: Hope, hard work, and a crow named Betty - Twenty-first century and beyond -- Important dates for the protection of birds, especially the ivory-billed woodpecker -- Glossary -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Picture credits -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFF 05-1042
- ISBN
- 0374361738
- LCCN
- 2003049049
- OCLC
- 52593996
- Author
- Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-
- Title
- The race to save the Lord God Bird / Phillip Hoose.
- Imprint
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2004.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
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- Research Call Number
- JFF 05-1042JSE 06-495J 598.72 H