Birds and Men : American Birds in Science, Art, Literature, and Conservation, 1800-1900 / Robert Henry Welker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Welker, Robert Henry, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds in art.

Birds in literature.

Birds--Conservation--United States.

Birds.

Birds--United States.

Feathers.

Local Subjects:

Birds--Conservation--United States.

Birds--United States.

Birds in art.

Birds in literature.

Feathers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

Reprint 2014

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction

1. New Lands, New Birds

2. Pioneer and Prophet: Alexander Wilson

3. The "American Ornithology"

4. A Meeting of Consequence

5. Fulfilling Genius: John James Audubon

6. Bird Art and Audubon

7. Literary Birdman: Henry David Thoreau

8. Emerson and Other Worthies

9. "John o' Birds''' : John Burroughs

10. American Bird Poetry: Whitman and Others

11. End-of-the-Century Prose

12. The Beginnings of Conservation

13. Federal and State Bird Books

14. Educating a Wider Public

15. Boys, Pot-Hunters, and Women Enemies of Birds

16. Rescue at Hand

Selected Bibliography

INDEX

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

0-674-43682-2

OCLC:

1013942666