Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners, a Critical Edition

Wright, Mabel Osgood; Coues, Elliott

ISBN 10: 1978837062 / ISBN 13: 9781978837065

Edité par Rutgers University Press, 2025

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Synopsis :

Likely the first birding guide for children, Citizen Bird (1897) was a tremendously influential text in Progressive-era America, inspiring in a generation of schoolchildren a love of wild birds and the desire to know more about them and to protect them from extinction. More than a century and a quarter later, Citizen Bird is today little more than a footnote in American environmental history, most often cited in relation to one of its two authors or its illustrator: the naturalist Mabel Osgood Wright, the ornithologist Elliott Coues, and the bird artist Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With a contextualizing introduction, explanatory footnotes, and supplementary historical material in an appendix, this teaching edition of Citizen Bird aims to restore the text to its rightful place not just in the history of birding but also in the broader study of nineteenth-century American culture and literature.

À propos de l'auteur: ELIZABETH CHERRY is a professor of sociology at Manhattanville University in Purchase, New York. She is the author of Culture and Activism: Animal Rights in France and the United States and For the Birds: Protecting Wildlife Through the Naturalist Gaze (Rutgers University Press).

MEGHAN FREEMAN is the fellowship and internship librarian at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, and she has taught and published on nineteenth-century literature, art, and culture.

MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT (1859-1934) founded the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Birdcraft Museum and Sanctuary in Connecticut, published several books on birds and birding, and helped revive and reestablish the National Audubon Society through her work as editor and writer for Bird-Lore, the precursor to Audubon Magazine. Her book Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds (1895) is widely regarded as the first true field guide for birds, and her book Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners (1897) is cited by the Library of Congress as a milestone in the conservation movement.

ELLIOTT COUES (1842-1899) was one of the founders, and later the president, of the American Ornithologists' Union (now the American Ornithological Society), published numerous books and scientific papers on ornithological topics, and edited the AOU's publication The Auk. His Key to North American Birds (1872), a highly regarded scientific bird identification manual, was revised and reprinted in six editions. One of the American Ornithological Society's most prestigious annual awards is named after Elliott Coues.

LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES (1874-1927) was a highly sought-after American bird illustrator, second in prominence today only to John James Audubon. He produced thousands of illustrations for many important works, including Merriam Bailey's Handbook of Birds of the Western United States (1902), Keyser's Birds of the Rockies (1902), Coues's Key to North American Birds (1903), Eaton's Birds of New York (1910-1914), and Forbush's Birds of Massachusetts (1925-1929). The Wilson Ornithological Society has named its most prestigious award after Louis Agassiz Fuertes.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Citizen Bird: Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain...
Éditeur : Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition : 2025
Reliure : Paperback
Illustrateur : Fuertes, Louis Agassiz
Etat : Good
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