Pilgrim on the great bird continent : the importance of everything and other lessons from Darwin's lost notebooks / Lyanda Lynn Haupt.
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TextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown, 2006Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 276 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0316836648 (hardcover); 9780316836647Subject(s): Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Beagle Expedition (1831-1836) | Birds -- South America | Natural history -- South AmericaDDC classification: 508.092 LOC classification: QL689.S58 | H38 2006Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Darwin's bump of reverence -- Watching for voices -- Pilgrim on the great bird continent -- Small birds, large thoughts -- Ostrich soup -- Come, little friend -- Condors flying -- An infinity of owls -- Wildling in the Galapagos -- Living science, dead birds -- A naturalist's fancy -- God and the nightingale -- The naturalist's faith.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-276).
Darwin's bump of reverence -- Watching for voices -- Pilgrim on the great bird continent -- Small birds, large thoughts -- Ostrich soup -- Come, little friend -- Condors flying -- An infinity of owls -- Wildling in the Galapagos -- Living science, dead birds -- A naturalist's fancy -- God and the nightingale -- The naturalist's faith.
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