LEADER 04084nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910792015303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-674-07377-0 010 $a0-674-07373-8 024 7 $a10.4159/harvard.9780674073739 035 $a(CKB)2560000000102377 035 $a(EBL)3301318 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000915279 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11612245 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000915279 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10866593 035 $a(PQKB)11599771 035 $a(DE-B1597)209763 035 $a(OCoLC)848895534 035 $a(OCoLC)979967841 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780674073739 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3301318 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10718801 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3301318 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000102377 100 $a20121218d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAlexander Wilson$b[electronic resource] $ethe Scot who founded American ornithology /$fEdward H. Burtt, Jr., William E. Davis, Jr 210 $aCambridge $cBelknap Press of Harvard University Press$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (464 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-674-07255-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 429-432) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tChapter One. Themes in Wilson's Life and Writings -- $tChapter Two. A Varied Life -- $tChapter Three. Illustrating American Ornitholog y -- $tChapter Four. Pioneer Ornithologist -- $tChapter Five. Wilson's Legacy -- $tAppendix A. On the Shoulders of Giants: Wilson's Predecessors -- $tAppendix B. Wilson's Contemporaries and Correspondents -- $tNotes -- $tSelected Bibliography -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIndex 330 $aAudubon 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 In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the first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. Abandoning early ambitions to become a poet in the mold of his countryman Robert Burns, Wilson emigrated from Scotland to settle near Philadelphia, where the botanist William Bartram encouraged his proclivity for art and natural history. Wilson traveled 12,000 miles on foot, on horseback, in a rowboat, and by stage and ship, establishing a network of observers along the way. He wrote hundreds of accounts of indigenous birds, discovered many new species, and sketched the behavior and ecology of each species he encountered. Drawing on their expertise in both science and art, Burtt and Davis show how Wilson defied eighteenth-century conventions of biological illustration by striving for realistic depiction of birds in their native habitats. He drew them in poses meant to facilitate identification, making his work the model for modern field guides and an inspiration for Audubon, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and other naturalists who followed. On the bicentennial of his death, this beautifully illustrated volume is a fitting tribute to Alexander Wilson and his unique contributions to ornithology, ecology, and the study of animal behavior. 606 $aOrnithologists$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aOrnithology$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aBirds$zUnited States$vPictorial works 615 0$aOrnithologists 615 0$aOrnithology$xHistory. 615 0$aBirds 676 $a598.092 676 $aB 700 $aBurtt$b Edward H.$cJr.,$f1948-$01538996 701 $aDavis$b William E.$cJr.,$f1936-$01538997 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792015303321 996 $aAlexander Wilson$93789570 997 $aUNINA