Oxford University Press, Date: 2011-12-14. Hardcover. Good. 1.0000 9.0000 6.2000. 2011. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199734593 9780199734597 [US]

Oxford University Press, Date: 2011-12-13. 1. Used - Like New. Used Like New, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. 2011. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199734593 9780199734597 [US]

ISBN10: 0199734593, ISBN13: 9780199734597, [publisher: Oxford, London] Hardcover First Edition Lovely pictorial jacket in very good condition. Pages clean and bright. pp.241. Overall very good.
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Oxford University Press, December Date: 2011. Hardcover. Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is slightly worn about the edges, but with no tears and not price clipped. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws. 2011. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199734593 9780199734597 [US]

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Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, Date: 2012. x, 241 pages, [12] pages of plates, illustrations (some colour); 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: Shooting birds with opera glasses; A book for a hobby, 1889-1920; Knowledge & skills; The field guide comes of age; Birds over America; Birding in a silent spring; Environmental birding; Conclusion: the gyre.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible. 2012. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199734593 9780199734597 [US]

Oxford University Press, Date: 2011-12-14. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. A solid copy with a tight binding and sharp corners. Text and images are clean and unmarked. The illustrated dust jacket is in a mylar cover. 2011. Oxford University Press ISBN 0199734593 9780199734597 [US]

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ISBN10: 0199734593, ISBN13: 9780199734597, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field guides to birds in America from the Victorian era to the present, relating changes in the guides to shifts in science, the craft of field identification, and new technologies for the massreproduction of images. Drawing on his experience as a passionate birder and on a wealth of archival research, Thomas Dunlap shows how the twin pursuits of recreation and conservation have inspired birders and howfield guides have served as the preferred method of informal education about nature for well over a century. The book begins with the first generation of late 19th-century birdwatchers who built the hobby when opera glasses were often the best available optics and bird identification was sketchy at best. As America became increasingly urban, birding became more attractive, and with Roger Tory Peterson's first field guide in 1934, birding grew in both popularity andaccuracy. By the 1960s recreational birders were attaining new levels of expertise, even as the environmental movement made birding's other pole, conservation, a matter of human health and planetary survival.Dunlap concludes by showing how recreation ...

ISBN10: 0199734593, ISBN13: 9780199734597, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. America is a nation of ardent, knowledgeable birdwatchers. But how did it become so? And what role did the field guide play in our passion for spotting, watching, and describing birds? In the Field, Among the Feathered tells the history of field guides to birds in America from the Victorian era to the present, relating changes in the guides to shifts in science, the craft of field identification, and new technologies for the massreproduction of images. Drawing on his experience as a passionate birder and on a wealth of archival research, Thomas Dunlap shows how the twin pursuits of recreation and conservation have inspired birders and howfield guides have served as the preferred method of informal education about nature for well over a century. The book begins with the first generation of late 19th-century birdwatchers who built the hobby when opera glasses were often the best available optics and bird identification was sketchy at best. As America became increasingly urban, birding became more attractive, and with Roger Tory Peterson's first field guide in 1934, birding grew in both popularity andaccuracy. By the 1960s recreational birders were attaining new levels of expertise, even as the environmental movement made birding's other pole, conservation, a matter of human health and planetary survival.Dunlap concludes by showing how recreation ...