Listening to a Continent Sing : : Birdsong by Bicycle from the Atlantic to the Pacific / / Donald Kroodsma.

Join birdsong expert Donald Kroodsma on a ten-week, ten-state bicycle journey as he travels with his son from the Atlantic to the Pacific, lingering and listening to our continent sing as no one has before. On remote country roads, over terrain vast and spectacular, from dawn to dusk and sometimes t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 125 line illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • How to Listen Using the QR Codes
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • 1. Beginnings
  • 2. Peace, and War
  • 3. Lemonade
  • 4. Blue Ridge Dawn
  • 5. A Virginia High
  • 6. Appalachia
  • 7. Boone Country
  • 8. A Ride in Heaven
  • 9. Laid Up
  • 10. On the Road Again
  • 11. Dawn Sweeps the Shawnee
  • 12. The Ozarks
  • 13. A Prairie Gem
  • 14. Kansas Oceans
  • 15. Shortgrass Prairie
  • 16. Western Birds
  • 17. Riding the Rockies
  • 18. Sage and Song
  • 19. Hello, Wyoming
  • 20. The Oregon Trail
  • 21. Grand Tetons
  • 22. Into the Fire
  • 23. Caterpillars Marching
  • 24. Chief Joseph Pass
  • 25. Lewis and Clark
  • 26. Pacific Islands Incoming
  • 27. Ascending into Oregon
  • 28. Geological Chaos
  • 29. Over the Cascades
  • 30. A Homecoming
  • 31. Land's End
  • Epilogue- Where Are They Now?
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index