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[Irving, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2011]

ISBN10: 0199734593, ISBN13: 9780199734597, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0199734593, ISBN13: 9780199734597, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover
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ISBN10: 0199734593, ISBN13: 9780199734597, [publisher: OUP USA] Hardcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.
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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 Univ Pr] Hardcover 256 pages. 9.40x6.40x1.00 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2011]

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 ...

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[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2012]