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Alexander Skutch portrays his life as an intrepid naturalist in his own personal style. This autobiography and natural history recounts his early years growing up in Maryland and Maine and his adventures in Central America and Jamaica during the 1920s and 1930s, when he began his studies of nesting birds, well before modernisation affected the region. It weaves precise descriptions of tropical plant, bird, and animal life into personal philosophy about man and nature. The book ends with the author's arrival in Costa Rica, in the then remote valley where he has lived since 1935.
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The Imperative Call: a Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Nature. 1979. Cloth/DJ (6-1/4 x 9-1/4 in.), 331pp, illus. (B&W photos). Biographical review of the author's studies in the Neotropics (esp. for birds). VG; book like new (just DJ somewhat worn). Seller Inventory # 1-1564
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The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 1979. Photos, map endpapers, index, 332pp. Skutch's autobiographical account of his early influences and experiences leading to his life of research and observation in tropical America. Dust jacket worn but all there, in protective Brodart sleeve. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 002731
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The Imperative Call: A Naturalist's Quest in Temperate and Tropical America
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Volume itself has beautiful blue cloth covers with sharper blue lettering on the spine. 331 pages, including an index. There is the beginning of some brown spotting on the top of the pages, near the spine. A bit of wear at the head and tail of the spine and some corners. Interior pages are clean and binding is tight. No apparent underlining, no highlighting, no bookplates, no owner names, not ex-libris, no remainder marks, no folded or dogeared pages, no smudges. The dust jacket is protected in an archival quality Brodart cover. There is wear at the head and tail of the spine of the dj and a touch of corner and edge wear. Also a bit of age toning on the inside of the dj. A quite nice copy; available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box. Seller Inventory # 0011009
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