Description |
1 online resource (x, 270 pages) : illustrations, map |
Contents |
Foreword / Nancy Tanner -- "Someone needs to write a book ..." -- Sabbatical -- The journey begins -- The swampy South -- The ghost bird -- Hot sauce and bird city -- Days of wind and dust -- Has anyone seen a young ivory-bill? -- Westward ho -- Swansong -- On his own -- Back at singer -- A need to move on -- On the road again -- A second nesting season at singer -- On the road again, again -- From the Santee to the sunshine state -- Finding Sonny boy -- I go pogo -- The fellowship concludes -- At home in Tennessee -- Our lives changed forever -- Aftermath |
Summary |
& Ldquo;Everyone who is interested in the ivory-billed woodpecker will want to read this book & mdash;from scientists who wish to examine the data from all the places Tanner explored to the average person who just wants to read a compelling story. & rdquo;. & mdash;Tim Gallagher, author of The Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. In 1935 naturalist James T. Tanner was a twenty-one-year-old graduate student when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America & rsquo;s Istudent when he saw his first ivory-billed woodpecker, one of America & rsquo;s rarest birds, in a remot |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Tanner, James T. (James Taylor)
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SUBJECT |
Tanner, James T. (James Taylor)
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Tanner, James T. (James Taylor) fast |
Subject |
Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography
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Naturalists -- United States -- Biography
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Ivory-billed woodpecker.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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NATURE -- Birds & Birdwatching.
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NATURE -- General.
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Ivory-billed woodpecker
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Naturalists
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Ornithologists
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781572337329 |
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157233732X |
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