LEADER 03776nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910778111503321 005 20230721031816.0 010 $a0-292-79477-0 024 7 $a10.7560/716803 035 $a(CKB)1000000000479631 035 $a(OCoLC)646761218 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10245767 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000239107 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11200427 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000239107 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10235333 035 $a(PQKB)11279489 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3571719 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3571719 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10245767 035 $a(DE-B1597)588234 035 $a(OCoLC)1286808301 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780292794771 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000479631 100 $a20070430d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRoger Tory Peterson$b[electronic resource] $ea biography /$fby Douglas Carlson 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAustin $cUniversity of Texas Press$d2007 215 $a1 online resource (309 p.) 225 1 $aMildred Wyatt-Wold series in ornithology 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-292-71680-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 279-285) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1908?1926. Jamestown, New York -- $t1926?1934. New York City and Boston -- $t1934. The Field Guide, First Edition -- $t1934?1942. New York City -- $t1942?1953. Washington, D.C. -- $t1954?1974. Old Lyme, Connecticut -- $t1974?1980. Old Lyme -- $t1980?1996. Old Lyme -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aBeginning with his 1934 Field Guide to the Birds, Roger Tory Peterson introduced literally millions of people to the pleasures of observing birds in the wild. His field guide, which has gone through five editions and sold more than four million copies, fostered an appreciation for the natural world that set the stage for the contemporary environmental movement. When Rachel Carson's Silent Spring sounded a warning about the threat to birds and their habitats in the 1960s, the Peterson field guides had already prepared the public and the scientific community to heed the warning and fight to save habitat and protect endangered species?a result that Peterson wholeheartedly approved. In this authoritative, highly readable biography of Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), Douglas Carlson creates a fascinating portrait of the complex, often conflicted man behind the brand name. He describes how Peterson's obsession with birds began in boyhood and continued throughout a multifaceted career as a painter, writer, educator, environmentalist, and photographer. Carlson traces Peterson's long struggle to become both an accomplished bird artist and a scientific naturalist?competing goals that drove Peterson to work to the point of exhaustion and that also deprived him of many aspects of a normal personal life. Carlson also records Peterson's many lasting achievements, from the phenomenal success of the field guides, to the bird paintings that brought him renown as "the twentieth century's Audubon," to the establishment of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute to carry on his work in conservation and education. 410 0$aMildred Wyatt-Wold series in ornithology. 606 $aOrnithologists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aOrnithologists 676 $a598.092 676 $aB 700 $aCarlson$b Douglas$f1943-$01548935 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778111503321 996 $aRoger Tory Peterson$93806356 997 $aUNINA