My Birding Adventures Roger Tory Peterson, Edited by Bill Thompson III
Roger Tory Peterson meant a lot to millions of Americans, and birders all over the world. By persevering through many rejection letters to publish the very first guide to identify birds in the field (rather than by shooting them and going to museum or using a large text book), he opened up the natural world to everyday man. Many of us met him, or caught a glimpse of him in the field or at an event. Reading the select columns presented in this book is a virtual chance to be in the field with him again. While he will be remembered for the Peterson Field Guide series, we can all get to know him, and share his love and enthusiasm for birds and the natural world through this book.
From the publisher: “Ten years after Roger Tory Peterson’s death, his unique perspective on birding comes to life in these highly personal narratives. Here he relates his adventures during a lifetime of birding and traveling the world to observe and record nature. Whether it is in writing about the time when his boat capsized in freezing water off the coast of Maine while he, then in his eighties, was filming a documentary, or about his experiences searching for the ivory-billed woodpecker, Peterson’s sense of adventure and curiosity cannot be extinguished. The accomplished illustrator and writer was nearly as passionate about photography as he was about painting, and each essay is illustrated with Peterson’s own photographs. The essays included here were carefully selected by Bill Thompson III, editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest, in which the columns originally appeared.”
Hardcover, 320 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 ¼ inches, full-color photographs, Nov 2006
