Alexander Wilson - Enlightened Naturalist

This book examines the power of cross-disciplinary thinking. Alexander Wilson was a published poet, an accomplished musician, a skilled artist and an insightful observer. All these skills came together in his truly revolutionary text, American Ornithology, which is the founding document of American ornithology. The elegance of its writing, the novelty of its art, and the excellence of its science make Wilson's Ornithology worth consulting even today, two centuries after its publication.

About the author

The late Edward H. Burtt, Jr. was the Cincinnati Conference Professor of Zoology at Ohio Wesleyan University.

Product details

• Authors: Edward Burtt, Edward H Burtt, Edward H. Burtt, Edward H. Jr. Burtt
• Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9781611487961
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-796-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures; Apercus: Histories Texts Cultu; Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures; Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies