Flashing Wings: The Drama of Bird Flight
by John K. Terres
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About This Item
Doubleday & Company, New York, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Association copy, inscribed in the year of publication on the front free endpaper: "To Francis Harper--With every good wish of he author. John K. Terres, December 14, 1968." Francis Harper was noted for his studies and retracing of John and William Bartram's travels in the South, in particular in Florida and Okefenokee Swamp. His papers are held by the University of Kansas. John K. Terres was a prolific writer of natural history, in particular ornithology, and for 12 years was the editor of Audubon Magazine. He won the John Burroughs Medal for natural history writing for From "Laurel Hill to Siler's Bog: The Walking Adventures of a Naturalist," about his explorations of the biological reserve in the North Carolina Botanical Garden. Francis Harper retired to Chapel Hill, which likely explains their overlap. A fine book in a very good jacket with a bit of wear to corners and a half-inch tear to the upper spine. Illustrated by noted wildlife illustrator Robert Hines. // Wood River Books specializes in place-based and environmental literature, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions.
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- Title
- Flashing Wings: The Drama of Bird Flight
- Author
- John K. Terres
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, New York
- Date Published
- 1968
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Rural Hours (formerly Wood + River = Books, est. 2019) specializes in ecology, natural history, nature writing, the environment, environmental literature, and contemporary essay, with a special passion for association copies and notable inscriptions. We draw our name from the popular-but-then-forgotten book by Susan Fenimore Cooper (published in 1850), generally considered the first work of environmental creative nonfiction by a woman in the U.S. We are interested in challenging and expanding the canon of environmental literature and finding books that tell remarkable stories and illuminate the tradition of writing about place and natural history.
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