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The remarkable life of William Beebe : explorer and naturalist / Carol Grant Gould.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gould, Carol Grant.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beebe, William, 1877-1962.
- Beebe, William.
- Zoologists--Biography.
- Zoologists.
- Barr, Linda, 1944- Biography. Explorers.
- Barr, Linda.
- Biography (Barr, Linda).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xv, 447 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Island Press/Shearwater Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- Annotation As the first biographer to see the letters and private journals William Beebe kept from 1887 until his death in 1962, science writer Gould brings the life and times of this groundbreaking scientist and explorer to light.
- Annotation William Beebe's curiosity about the natural world was insatiable, and he did nothing by halves. As the first biographer to see the letters and private journals Beebe kept from 1887 until his death in 1962, science writer Carol Grant Gould brings the life and times of this groundbreaking scientist and explorer to light.
- Contents:
- Naturalist
- Counting crows
- Fledging
- Portrait of the naturalist as a young man
- Sailing North
- The scientists' apprentice
- Bronx Zoological Park
- Widening horizons
- Nestbuilding
- Ornithologist
- Flying South
- Migration
- The naturalist as author
- Rain forest at last
- In search of wildness
- City lights
- Pheasant jungles
- Western Himalayas
- Bearing East
- Recalibration
- Betrayal
- Wilderness found
- Jungle peace
- Marine Biologist
- The Encantadas
- New York Aerie
- The Arcturus adventure
- Fire and water
- Elswyth
- Bermuda diary
- Out of the depths
- On the air
- Half mile down
- Fishing
- Tropical ecologist
- Ocean to jungle
- Rancho Grande
- High jungle
- Simla
- Home to roost
- Simla sunset.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 425-429) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- ISBN:
- 1559638583
- 9781559638586
- 9781597261074
- 1597261076
- OCLC:
- 55494944
- Online:
- Publisher description
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