For the Beauty of the Earth
Subtitle: Birding, Opera, and Other Journeys
Publisher: Shoemaker & Hoard
Published: April 28, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781593760175
Subjects: Nature/Ecology; Natural History; Ecology; Nature; Urquhart, Thomas,; Opera; Birds & Birdwatching - General; Essays; Nature / General; General; Anecdotes; Bird watching
First sentence: I CAN IMAGINE no better piece of advice for raising a child than Captain Robert Falcon Scott's last message to his wife, sent from his final, fatal expedition to the South Pole: "Make the boy a naturalist."