Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks by Haupt, Lyanda Lynn
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Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks by Haupt, Lyanda Lynn

Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent: The Importance of Everything and Other Lessons from Darwin's Lost Notebooks

Little Brown and Company
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Description

By focusing mostly on the birds Charles Darwin observed, and by brilliantly mining his lesser-known writings, Haupt pens a startlingly fresh exploration of the man's genius that invites readers to look at the world with new eyes.

Author: Lyanda Lynn Haupt
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 03/06/2006
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.19h x 6.32w x 0.95d
ISBN13: 9780316836647
ISBN10: 0316836648
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | Essays
- Nature | Animals | Wildlife
- Science | Life Sciences | Evolution

About the Author
Lyanda Lynn Haupt has created and directed educational programs for Seattle Audubon, worked in raptor rehabilitation in Vermont, and as a seabird researcher for the Fish and Wildlife Service in the remote tropical Pacific. She is the author of Pilgrim on the Great Bird Continent and Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds (winner of the 2002 Washington State Book Award).

Her writing has appeared in Image, Open Spaces, Wild Earth, Conservation Biology Journal, Birdwatcher's Digest, and the Prairie Naturalist. She lives in West Seattle with her husband and daughter.