The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America

The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America

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In The Imperative Call, Alexander F. Skutch recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and Maine and his adventures in Central America and Jamaica during the 1920s and 1930s, well before modernization affected the region, when the began his classic studies of nesting birds. Weaving precise descriptions of tropical plan, bird, and animal life into a personal philosophy about man and nature, the book is both autobiography and natural history.

The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America,Alexander F. Skutch,University Press of Florida,0813011493,1904-,Biography,Birds,Central America,General,Natural History,Naturalists, Gardeners, Environmentalists,Nature,Nature/Ecology,Ornithologists,Skutch, Alexander Frank,,United States,Skutch, Alexander Frank

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