Return to Wild America.Return to Wild America Scott Weidensaul Farrar, Straus, Giroux 19 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003 0865476888, $26.00 www.fsgbooks.com In 1953 birder Roger Tory Peterson Roger Tory Peterson (August 28, 1908 – July 28, 1996), was an American naturalist, ornithologist, artist, and educator, and held to be one of the founding inspirations for the 20th century environmental movement. Peterson was born in Jamestown, New York. and British naturalist James Fisher For other persons with this name, see James Fisher (disambiguation). James Maxwell McConnell Fisher (3rd September, 1912 – 25th September, 1970) was a British author, editor, broadcaster, naturalist and ornithologist. journeyed for a hundred days covering some thirty thousand miles around North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , noting their discoveries in WILD AMERICA: here on the 50th anniversary of their trip naturalist Scott Weidensaul retraces their steps and tells of his findings in RETURN TO WILD AMERICA: A YEARLONG year·long adj. Lasting one year. Adj. 1. yearlong - lasting through a year; "attending yearlong courses" long - primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or SEARCH FOR THE CONTINENT'S NATURAL SOUL. Many changes have taken place in the areas covered in WILD AMERICA: this documents both sad changes and hopeful struggles---and RETURN TO WILD AMERICA, for maximum impact, should be followed or preceded by a re-reading of WILD AMERICA for maximum effect. |
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