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Sacred ibis : the ornithology of Canon Henry Baker Tristram, DD, FRS
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Title
Sacred ibis : the ornithology of Canon Henry Baker Tristram, DD, FRS / W.G. Hale.
ISBN
9781910519134
1910519138
Publication
Durham [England] : Sacristy Press, [2016]
Physical Description
xx, 322 pages, 66 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 18, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-283) and index.
Contents
In the beginning
A new world : Tristram in the Bahamas
Castle Eden to canon : birdwatcher to ornithologist
An exaltation of ornithologists
The sands of the Sahara : the Western Desert
The sands of the Sahara : in Tunisia
A Darwinian conversation
The long winters of Palestine. 1, South to the Gore (1858, 1863-4)
The long winters of Palestine. 2, The retreat from Beersheba to Beirut
Palestine : the land of Moab (1872)
Palestine revisited : Egypt to Armenia (1881)
Tristram's islands
Tristram in Japan
Twilight of the great auk
"What's hit is history, what's missed is mystery" : the collections of skins
Ootheca tristramiana : collector to conservationist
Bird protection and the grassroots of conservation
Last letters
Tristram's library
References
Appendix 1: Tristram's life table
Appendix 2: Correspondence associated with Tristram
Appendix 3: Tristram's ornithological publications.
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Biography.
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