Roberts came to Minnesota as a boy and began keeping detailed accounts of Minneapolis’s birds. These journals, which became the basis for his landmark work The Birds of Minnesota, also inform this book, affording a view of the state’s rich avian life in its early daysand of a young man whose passion for birds and practice of medicine in a young Minneapolis eventually dovetailed in his launching of the beloved Bell Museum of Natural History.
Bird enthusiast, doctor, author, curator, educator, conservationist: every chapter in Roberts’s life is also a chapter in the state’s history, and in his story acclaimed author Sue Leafan avid bird enthusiast and nature lover herselfcaptures a true Minnesota character and his time.
Roberts came to Minnesota as a boy and began keeping detailed accounts of Minneapolis’s birds. These journals, which became the basis for his landmark work The Birds of Minnesota, also inform this book, affording a view of the state’s rich avian life in its early daysand of a young man whose passion for birds and practice of medicine in a young Minneapolis eventually dovetailed in his launching of the beloved Bell Museum of Natural History.
Bird enthusiast, doctor, author, curator, educator, conservationist: every chapter in Roberts’s life is also a chapter in the state’s history, and in his story acclaimed author Sue Leafan avid bird enthusiast and nature lover herselfcaptures a true Minnesota character and his time.
A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts
296A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts
296Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780816675654 |
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Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
Publication date: | 09/28/2021 |
Pages: | 296 |
Sales rank: | 1,080,807 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.90(d) |