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Alexander Wilson : the Scot who founded American ornithology / Edward H. Burtt, Jr., William E. Davis, Jr.
- Title
- Alexander Wilson : the Scot who founded American ornithology / Edward H. Burtt, Jr., William E. Davis, Jr.
- Author
- Burtt, Edward H., Jr., 1948-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, [2013]
- ©2013
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- Additional Authors
- Davis, William E., Jr., 1936-
- Description
- x, 444 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds of the North American wilderness.
- Subject
- Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813
- Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813. > Illustrations
- Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813
- Wilson, Alexander 1766-1813
- Ornithologists > United States > Biography
- Ornithology > United States > History
- Birds > United States > Pictorial works
- Ornithologues > États-Unis > Biographies
- Ornithologie > États-Unis > Histoire
- Oiseaux > États-Unis > Ouvrages illustrés
- Birds
- Ornithologists
- Ornithology
- Ornithologie
- Ornitologer
- Ornitologi > historia
- United States
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- History
- Illustrated works
- Pictorial works
- Biographies.
- Illustrated works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Themes in Wilson's life and writings -- A varied life -- Illustrating the American ornithology -- Pioneer ornithologist -- Wilson's legacy -- Appendix A. "On the shoulders of giants" : Wilson's predecessors -- Appendix B. Wilson's contemporaries and correspondents.
- ISBN
- 9780674072558
- 0674072553
- LCCN
- 2012036742
- OCLC
- 812067681
- SCSB-12763094
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library