Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 140 pages, [8] leaves of plates)
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illustrations (some color)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0816609403
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0816609373
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0816663920
,
9780816609406
,
9780816609376
,
9780816663927
Inhalt:
Few maps show the location of Bird Island -- a lonely outcrop in the South Georgia group where Antarctic waters push against the Atlantic east of Cape Horn. Its forbidding flanks invite few human visitors. But for those who reach its shores there are rich
Inhalt:
Preface and Acknowledgments; Bird Island Species; Table of Contents; South with the Fids; The Tussock Isles; Lönnberg House: The First Night; Tussock, Wildlife, and Wind; Blue Petrels; The Monarchs of Bird Island; Saturday Night at Lönnberg House; Scavenging Tussock Ducks; Stinkers; Blue-Eyed Shags; Farewell Point; Skuas; Last Impressions; Selected Bibliography; Index
Anmerkung:
"The adventures of an artist/ornithologist on a lonely outcrop in the far South Atlantic"--Cover
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Includes bibliographical references (page 135) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Parmelee, David Freeland, 1924- Bird Island in Antarctic waters Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1980
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
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