Imperial dreams tracking the imperial woodpecker through the wild Sierra Madre
"Explorer and naturalist Tim Gallagher is obsessed with rare birds. A decade ago, Gallagher was one of the rediscoverers of the legendary ivory-billed woodpecker, which most scientists believed had been extinct for more than half a century-- an event that caused an international stir. Now, in I...
| Main Author: | Gallagher, Tim. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Atria Books,
2013.
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| Edition: | First Atria Books hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Down Mexico way
- Treasures and tragedies of the Sierra Madre. In Pancho Villa's land ; High sierra ; A natural history of the imperial woodpecker ; Out of Norway ; There is blood in this soil ; Twilight of the Sierra Madre Apaches ; The song of Aldo Leopold
- The final expeditions. From ivory-bills to imperials ; The last explorers ; No turning back ; That was long ago, and now they are gone ; You will get there at best
- Vaya con Dios, Pitoreal.