Leaf, Sue (Author)
University of Minnesota Press
Physical Details: xviii + 271 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
The father of Minnesota ornithology, whose life story opens a window on a lost world of nature and conservation in the state's early days A Love Affair with Birds is the first full biography of Thomas Sadler Roberts. 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 Leaf---an avid bird enthusiast and nature lover herself---captures a true Minnesota character and his time. For those of us who spend a lifetime helping preserve and encourage the conservation of birdlife, one of the greatest gifts we can receive is the chance to enter the `conservation time machine' provided by books like Sue Leaf's A Love Affair with Birds. It transports us back more than a hundred years to experience the diversity and abundance of the birdlife that once existed in Minnesota. It allows us to sense Roberts's passion for birds, his detailed powers of observation, and his thoroughness in documenting his lifetime of bird observations.
...MoreReview Greenberg, Joel (2014) Review of "A Love Affair with Birds: The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts". Environmental History (pp. 582-583).
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