Field Notes on Science & Nature
Language: English
Published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge / London, 2011
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Very clean first edition hardcover in clean unchipped dust jacket. Green paper-covered boards with brown cloth spine, dark brown lettering on spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, pages and edges are clean. Light green endpapers. No names, writing or marks. Illustrated with sketches, drawing, images of hand-written notes. 297 pages with Index. Clean jacket is unchipped, no tears; enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A book which allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions. Covering disciplines as diverse as ornithology, entomology, ecology, paleontology, botany and animal behavior, Field Notes offers specific examples that professional naturalists can emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with practical advice that amateur naturalists and students can use to document their adventures.
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- Title
- Field Notes on Science & Nature
- Author
- Canfield, Michael R.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press, Cambridge / London
- Publication year
- 2011
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0674057570
- ISBN 13
- 9780674057579
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- 1st Edition, Natural HIstory, Nature
Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon’s Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson’s 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does such insight into nature develop?
Pioneering a new niche in the study of plants and animals in their native habitat, Field Notes on Science and Nature allows readers to peer over the shoulders and into the notebooks of a dozen eminent field workers, to study firsthand their observational methods, materials, and fleeting impressions.
What did George Schaller note when studying the lions of the Serengeti? What lists did Kenn Kaufman keep during his 1973 “big year”? How does Piotr Naskrecki use relational databases and electronic field notes? In what way is Bernd Heinrich’s approach “truly Thoreauvian,” in E. O. Wilson’s view? Recording observations in the field is an indispensable scientific skill, but researchers are not generally willing to share their personal records with others. Here, for the first time, are reproductions of actual pages from notebooks. And in essays abounding with fascinating anecdotes, the authors reflect on the contexts in which the notes were taken.
Covering disciplines as diverse as ornithology, entomology, ecology, paleontology, anthropology, botany, and animal behavior, Field Notes offers specific examples that professional naturalists can emulate to fine-tune their own field methods, along with practical advice that amateur naturalists and students can use to document their adventures.
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About the Author
Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Bernd Heinrich is Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of Vermont. He has written several memoirs of his life in science and nature, including One Man’s Owl, Ravens in Winter, and A Year in the Maine Woods, which won the 1995 Rutstrum Authors’ Award for Literary Excellence.
Karen L. Kramer is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Utah.
Piotr Naskrecki is an Associate in Entomology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology.
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