LIBROS DEL AUTOR: pete dunne

5 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: pete dunne

  • Before the Echo
    Pete Dunne
    'The natural world is a lot like a game of musical chairs,' observes Pete Dunne. 'Everywhere you turn, everywhere you go, there are places where living things sit down, niches that support their specific needs. But just as in musical chairs, there aren’t enough places to go around. Our species keeps removing them-forcing other creatures to leave the game.' In these twenty-nine ...
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    17,82 €

  • Golden Wings and Other Stories about Birders and Birding
    Pete Dunne
    Dubbed the 'Bard of America’s Bird-Watchers' by the Wall Street Journal, Pete Dunne knows birders and birding-instinctively and completely. He understands the compulsion that drives other birders to go out at first light, whatever the weather, for a chance to maybe, just maybe, glimpse that rare migrant that someone might have spotted in a patch of woods the day before yesterda...
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    17,88 €

  • Small-headed Flycatcher. Seen Yesterday. He Didn’t Leave His Name.
    Pete Dunne
    Pete Dunne has been watching birds since he was seven years old. But not just watching-deeply absorbing every nuance of color, markings, shape, flight, and song; all the subtle clues that can identify a bird barely glimpsed among the highest branches in fading twilight. With the same skill, he has been observing and writing about birding and birders for over twenty years, using...
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    17,79 €

  • More Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
    Pete Dunne
    More Tales of a Low-Rent Birder brings together twenty-five essays that originally appeared in major birding publications. In these pieces, Pete Dunne ranges from wildly humorous to sadly elegiac, as he describes everything from the 'field plumage' of the dedicated birder to the lingering death of an accidentally injured golden plover. Running like a thread through all the essa...
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    27,08 €

  • Tales of a Low-Rent Birder
    Pete Dunne
    Tales of a Low-Rent Birder is a collection of nineteen essays and sketches written between 1977 and 1985. It was originally published in 1986. ...
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    17,74 €