Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society
by Merchant, Carolyn

Format: Hardcover
Release Date: 9/13/2016
Code: 14709
Condition: New
Product Details
An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society. The book features Grinnell's biographies of ornithologists John James Audubon and Alexander Wilson and his editorials and descriptions of Audubon's bird paintings. This primary documentation combined with Carolyn Merchant's insightful analysis casts new light on Grinnell, the origins of the first Audubon Society, and the conservation of avifauna.
ISBN: 9780300215458
Publisher: Yale University Press
Year of Publication: 2016
Page Count: 328
Shipping Weight: 2.25 lb