Field Notes on Science & Nature / / Michael R. Canfield.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
• VerfasserIn: Canfield, Michael R. ,
• MitwirkendeR: Behrensmeyer, Anna K.,; Canfield, Michael R.,; Greene, Erick,; Heinrich, Bernd,; Kaufman, Kenn,; Keller, Jenny,; Kingdon, Jonathan,; Kitching, Roger,; Kramer, Karen l.,; Naskrecki, Piotr,; Patton, James L.,; Perrine, John D.,; Reveal, James L.,; Schaller, George B.,; Wilson, Edward O.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (313 p.) :; 87 color illustrations, 43 halftones

Once in a great while, as the New York Times noted recently, a naturalist writes a book that changes the way people look at the living world. John James Audubon's Birds of America, published in 1838, was one. Roger Tory Peterson's 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was another. How does such in...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. The Pleasure of Observing
• 2. Untangling the Bank
• 3. One and a Half Cheers for List-Keeping
• 4. A Reflection of the Truth
• 5. Linking Researchers across Generations
• 6. The Spoken and the Unspoken
• 7. In the Eye of the Beholder
• 8. Why Sketch?
• 9. The Evolution and Fate of Botanical Field Books
• 10. Note-Taking for Pencilophobes
• 11. Letters to the Future
• 12. Why Keep a Field Notebook?
• Notes
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index