A feathered river across the sky : the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction
Title:
A feathered river across the sky : the passenger pigeon's flight to extinction
Author:
Greenberg, Joel (Joel R.), author.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Physical Description:
xiii, 289 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
Summary:
Naturalist Joel Greenberg relates how the pigeons' propensity to nest, roost, and fly together in vast numbers made them vulnerable to unremitting market and recreational hunting. His cautionary tale provides a close look at what happens when species and natural resources are not harvested sustainably.
Language:
English
Contents:
Life of the wanderer -- My blood shall be your blood : Indians and passenger pigeons -- A legacy of awe -- Pigeons as provisions to pigeons as products -- Means of destruction -- Profiles in killing -- The tempest was spent : the last great nestings -- Flights to the finish -- Martha and her kin : the captive flocks -- Extinction and beyond -- Appendix: A passenger pigeon miscellany.
ISBN:
9781620405369
Format :
Book
