Return to Wild America.(Brief article)(Book review)

From: MBR Bookwatch | Date: January 1, 2006| Author: Donovan, Diane C. | Copyright information

Return to Wild America

Scott Weidensaul

Farrar, Straus, Giroux

19 Union Square West, NY, NY 10003

0865476888, $26.00 www.fsgbooks.com

In 1953 birder Roger Tory Peterson and British naturalist James Fisher journeyed for a hundred days covering some thirty thousand miles around North America, noting their discoveries in WILD AMERICA: here on the 50th anniversary o...

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