A love affair with birds : the life of Thomas Sadler Roberts / / Sue Leaf
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| Autore: |
Leaf Sue <1953->
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| Titolo: |
A love affair with birds : the life of Thomas Sadler Roberts / / Sue Leaf
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 598.092 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Ornithologists - United States |
| Ornithologists - Minnesota | |
| Physicians - Minnesota | |
| Birds - Minnesota | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | A fledgling start -- Acquiring an eagle eye -- The young naturalists' society -- College boy -- A gypsy life -- The medical student -- A family man -- The busy physician -- The empty day -- A Florida interlude -- The associate curator -- Gains and losses -- Writing the book -- Building Mr. Bell's museum -- The cardinal hour -- Epilogue. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A Love Affair with Birds is the first full biography of Thomas Sadler Roberts. Bird enthusiast, doctor, author, curator, educator, conservationist: every chapter in Roberts's life is also a chapter in the state's history, and in his story acclaimed author Sue Leaf-an avid bird enthusiast and nature lover herself-captures a true Minnesota character and his time. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A love affair with birds |
| ISBN: | 1-4529-4745-7 |
| 0-8166-8880-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910828710003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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