Lyanda L. Haupt

Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent

The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

By focusing mostly on the birds Charles Darwin observed, and by brilliantly mining his lesser-known writings, Haupt pens a startlingly fresh exploration of the man's genius that invites readers to look at the world with new eyes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780316836647
• ISBN-10: 0316836648
• Artikelnr.: 22307599

Autorenporträt

Lyanda Lynn Haupt has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont, and as a seabird researcher for the Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. She is the author of Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (winner of the 2002 Washington State Book Award). Her writing has appeared in Image, Open Spaces, Wild Earth, Conservation Biology Journal, Birdwatcher's Digest, and the Prairie Naturalist. She lives in West Seattle with her husband and daughter.