The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America - Brossura

Skutch, Alexander F.

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ISBN 10: 0813011493 ISBN 13: 9780813011493

Casa editrice: Univ Pr of Florida, 1980

Riassunto

"The Imperative Call explores the making of an extraordinary naturalist… No one since W. H. Hudson has approached nature from such a consistent moral position. No one has tried so scrupulously to define the murky boundary ‘between science and vandalism…’ Ultimately, the reader comes to see Alex Skutch not so much as a naturalist or a farmer but as an artist."-- Audubon magazine

“Skutch offers us the botanical and zoological riches of the tropics, combining a gifted scientist’s powers of observation with a committed humanist’s reverence for life. Even those who have never been drawn to the tropics will find themselves entranced.” -- American Birds

In The Imperative Call, Alexander F. Skutch recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and Maine and his adventures in Central America and Jamaica during the 1920s and 1930s, well before modernization affected the region, when the began his classic studies of nesting birds. Weaving precise descriptions of tropical plan, bird, and animal life into a personal philosophy about man and nature, the book is both autobiography and natural history.

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Alexander Skutch portrays his life as an intrepid naturalist in his own personal style. This autobiography and natural history recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and Maine and his adventures in Central America and Jamaica during the 1920s and 1930s, when he began his studies of nesting birds, well before modernisation affected the region. It weaves precise descriptions of tropical plant, bird, and animal life into personal philosophy about man and nature. The book ends with the author's arrival in Costa Rica, in the then remote valley where he has lived since 1935.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ Pr of Florida
• Data di pubblicazione: 1980
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0813011493
• ISBN 13: 9780813011493
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 341
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile