Parts Unknown: A Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places
Author of Wild Bird Photography and editor of The Living Bird,  the excellent quarterly of Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology,  Gallagher has a special affinity for the Arctic and hawks. This  volume is concerned with exotic locales such as India, Iceland,  Greenland, northern Manitoba, and Alberta, and the birds of  those regions. However, Gallagher also writes of the wildness  found in our own backyards New Jersey, coastal Texas, and  Southern California and of tracking the sounds birds make when  they fly overhead at night, which is the manner in which most  migrate. This evocative book is presented in three parts: "Parts  Unknown" (exotic places), "Rare Raptors" (condors, falcons,  eagles, and hawks), and "Birding and Ornithology" (a  potpourri the Everglades, birding marathons, wildlife law  enforcement, Santa Catalina Island, etc.). Delightful, informed  reading with excellent photographs; highly recommended for all  wildlife collections. Henry T. Armistead, Free Lib. of  PhiladelphiaCopyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.