A Love Affair with Birds The Life of Thomas Sadler Roberts

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English | ISBN: 0816675643 | 2013 | 296 pages | PDF | 18 MB
The father of Minnesota ornithology, whose life story opens a window on a lost world of nature and conservation in the state’s early days

Imagine a Minneapolis so small that, on calm days, the roar of St. Anthony Falls could be heard in town, a time when passenger pigeons roosted in neighborhood oak trees. Now picture a dapper professor conducting his ornithology class (the university’s first) by streetcar to Lake Harriet for a morning of bird-watching. The students were mostly young women-in sunhats, sailor tops, and long skirts, with binoculars strung around their necks. The professor was Thomas Sadler Roberts (1858-1946), a doctor for three decades, a bird lover virtually from birth, the father of Minnesota ornithology, and the man who, perhaps more than any other, promoted the study of the state’s natural history.
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