Parts Unknown: A Naturalist's Journey in Search of Birds and Wild Places - Hardcover

Gallagher, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585742759 ISBN 13: 9781585742752

Publisher: UNKNO, 2001

Synopsis

Twenty-four essays range from accounts of birding in the icy regions of the North and descriptions of rare raptors in California to musings on diverse bird populations in New Jersey, the Everglades, and California's Santa Catalina Island.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

When Tim Gallagher was a child, he went to a museum exhibit of early maps. These tattered, ornately drawn charts often had one thing in common - a vast, black area to the north labeled Parts Unknown. Tim was fascinated with the idea of places completely unknown to mapmakers, and he made it his goal to visit and photograph these "unexplored" regions (and its avian inhabitants) for himself.Parts Unknown is the result of that quest. Here is a remarkable new collection of essays on Tim's lifelong fascination with birds, and how it has evolved into a daring brand of "adventure birding." Join Tim as he dangles on ropes at Gyrfalcon nest cliffs in northern Greenland and Iceland, traps migrating Arctic Peregrine Falcons on barrier islands in the Gulf of Mexico, journeys in an open boat for hundreds of miles up the west coast of Greenland to survey bird colonies, and learn about the continuing efforts to save the endangered California Condor. With a stunning full-color insert of Tim's finest photographs, Parts Unknown is an extraordinary look into an unexplored world. (6 1/4 x 9 1/4, 244 pages, color photos)

About the Author:

Tim Gallagher is an award-winning writer, editor, and nature photographer with more than twenty years of experience in publishing. He is currently editor in chief of Living Bird, the flagship publication of the famed Cornell Lab of Ornithology. He has written scores of articles on wildlife, nature, and photography.

About this edition

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1585742759
• ISBN 13: 9781585742752
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 227