Book ID: CBB001451470

A Feathered River across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction (2014)

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Greenberg, Joel (Author)


Bloomsbury


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: xiii + 289 pp.; ill.
Language: English

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Review Barrow, Mark V., Jr. (2014) Review of "A Feathered River across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction". Environmental History (pp. 747-749). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Grouw, H. Van
Bloch, D.
Ian J. Mason
Karl Schulze-Hagen
McGregor, Russell
Kathleen Brosemer
Journals
Archives of Natural History
Environmental History
Records of the Auckland Museum
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies
Historical Records of Australian Science
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Ian J. Mason
University of Oklahoma Press
University of Nebraska Press
Oxford University Press
University of Pennsylvania
British Ornithologists' Club
Concepts
Birds
Extinction (biology)
Ornithology
Natural history
Human-animal relationships
Biological specimens
People
Chisholm, Alec
Naumann, Johann Friedrich
Péron, François
Nice, Margaret Morse
Lesueur, Charles Alexander
Lamotius, Isaac Johannes
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
18th century
Places
United States
Australia
New Zealand
Germany
Madagascar
Canada
Institutions
Auckland Institute and Musem
British Ornithologists' Club
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