In Condor Country: A Portrait of a Landscape, Its Denizens, and Its Defenders - Hardcover

Darlington, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395407982 ISBN 13: 9780395407981

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1987

Synopsis

The McMillans, ranchers, naturalists, and environmentalists describe their daily efforts to help save the California condor

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

Eben and Ian McMillan, octogenarian brothers, have spent their lives in the high, arid, rolling grassland of San Luis Obispo County in Californiacondor country. Self-taught naturalists and conservationists, they made a study of condors for the Audubon Society in the '60s. Over a five-year period, journalist Darlington visited the McMillans, absorbing condor lore and learning the ecology of a unique landscape. As they tool around the countryside, Eben points out the San Andreas fault and evidence of its "creep"; he identifies both native and introduced vegetation on the Corrizo Plain. Ian's environmental activities resulted in his arrest (he was 71) for demonstrating at the San Diablo Canyon nuclear plant. In addition to an engaging portrait of two remarkably independent men, Darlington gives us an authoritative account of the controversy surrounding the artificial breeding program and the final days of the wild California condor. This is a gem for those interested in nature. (May
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0395407982
• ISBN 13: 9780395407981
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 242