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A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Roger Tory Peterson
The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars, and the Peterson Field Guides? are credited with helping to set the stage for the environmental movement.
5th edition
Houghton Mifflin
April 2002
450 pages ISBN: 0395740460 Paperback
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Roger Tory Peterson had already made his mark with his
innovative field guide when he conducted DDT research during
World War II. His friend and fellow naturalist Rachel Carson
built on these efforts and eventually wrote Silent Spring, a
landmark text that, along with Peterson"s field guide,
jump-started the modern environmental movement.
By combining the tireless observation of a scientist with
the imaginative skills of an artist and writer, Peterson
created a field guide that Robert Bateman, in his foreword
to the fifth edition, says was the doorway for millions of
people into the wonderland of natural history.
The Peterson Identification System has been used in the more
than fifty books that make up the Peterson Field Guide
series. Peterson"s magnum opus, now in its fifth edition,
created the trail for countless field guides to follow. They
are still following year by year, but his is the standard by
which all other field guides are judged. On the morning of July 28, 1996, Roger Peterson was painting
his final bird plate. He died peacefully in his sleep later
that day. It is fitting that his final work -- a culmination
of more than sixty years of observing, painting, and
writing -- should be this one, a revision of the guide that
started his legacy.
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