Spare the birds! George Bird Grinnell and the first Audubon Society / Carolyn Merchant.
| Author/creator | Merchant, Carolyn |
| Other author | Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016] |
| Description | xiii, 328 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | George Bird Grinnell and the first Audubon Society |
| Contents | Part I. George Bird Grinnell's Audubon Society. 1. Lucy and John James Audubon's influence on Grinnell ; 2. Grinnell's Audubon Society -- Part II. George Bird Grinnell's writings on John James Audubon and Alexander Wilson in The Audubon magazine. 3. Introduction to Grinnell's writings ; 4. The life of John James Audubon / George Bird Grinnell ; 5. The character of John James Audubon / George Bird Grinnell ; 6. Incidents of Audubon's life / George Bird Grinnell ; 7. Audubonian sketches / R[obert] W. Shufeldt ; 8. Biography of Alexander Wilson / George Bird Grinnell -- Part III. Grinnell's monthly birds in The Audubon magazine, 1887-1889. 9. Introduction to Grinnell's monthly birds ; 10. Grinnell's monthly birds. I ; 11. Grinnell's monthly birds. II -- Epilogue: Grinnell's achievements -- Appendixes. 1. Other early and recent biographies of Audubon ; 2. Producing Audubon's Birds of America and Grinnell's monthly birds ; 3. Timeline: Alexander Wilson ; 4. Timeline: John James Audubon and Lucy Bakewell Audubon ; 5. Timeline: George Bird Grinnell. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-314) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016933636 |
| ISBN | 9780300215458 (cloth : alk paper) |
| ISBN | 0300215452 (cloth : alk paper) |