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A love affair with birds : the life of Thomas Sadler Roberts / Sue Leaf.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leaf, Sue, 1953-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ornithologists--United States--Biography.
- Ornithologists.
- Ornithologists--Minnesota--Biography.
- Physicians--Minnesota--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Birds--Minnesota.
- Birds.
- Roberts, Thomas S. (Thomas Sadler), 1858-1946.
- Roberts, Thomas S.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4529-4745-7
- 0-8166-8880-X
- OCLC:
- 849947729
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