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Wild America
by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. The 1963 Sentry paperback edition, inscribed boldly on the title page in red ink: "For Martha Sykes, with my best wishes, Roger Tory Peterson." First thus, uncommon signed in this edition or any. Martha Sykes Hansen served as the director of the Audubon Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, and there is now an endowed chair in ornithology in her name at her alma mater, Earlham University in Indiana. Originally published in 1955 and now a classic of American nature writing, this book details the 30,000-mile journey by Peterson and his British colleague/counterpart James Fisher in 1953 around the edges of the United States and into Mexico, a one hundred-day journey to see and assess its natural splendor. They went south to the Gulf and then north to British Columbia. A very good, handsome book in a durable synthetic wraps ("the durability of cloth but the price and compactness of paper," says the rear wrap) with toning to text block faces and a slight flare to the lower corner. This journey was so iconic that it's been retraced several times for the books *Looking for the Wild* (1986) by Lyn Hancock and *Return to Wild America* (2005) by Scott Weidensaul.
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- ABE-1682144879474
- Title
- Wild America
- Author
- Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Date Published
- 1963
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Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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