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Wings Over the Sea: The Story of Allan Moses

Autor L.K. Ingersoll
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 1991
Allan Moses was a legendary figure, who was better known abroad than at home. A fisherman from Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Moses's fame began when he identified an albatross captured in the Bay of Fundy, 7000 miles away from its Antarctic home. Thus began a career that led Moses to South America, west Africa, and back to the Bay of Fundy once again on scientific expeditions that changed the history of ornithology.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780864921017
ISBN-10: 0864921012
Pagini: 159
Ilustrații: Black & white
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Goose Lane Editions
Colecția Goose Lane Editions
Locul publicării:Canada

Recenzii

In 1929 Allan Moses, a fisherman from Grand Manan, parleyed an ornithological "find" into a bird preservation area, leading the way for the development of several bird sanctuaries on Canada's eastern coast. Without his work, the common eider population would now be decimated and many of the shorebirds which nest in the Bay of Fundy would be endangered, if not extinct.
But the discovery of an albatross also gave a strange twist to Moses' career, bringing his interests to the attention of several museums, including the Cleveland Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, which later sponsored his ornithological expeditions to the South Atlantic and West Africa.