Burroughs John
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874 – 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist. Fuertes decided to concentrate on painting birds as a career after meeting Elliott Coues in 1894 while on a trip to Washington, D.C. with the Cornell University Glee Club. He would receive the first of his many commissions for illustrating birds while still an undergraduate. At Cornell, he was elected to the Sphinx Head Society, the oldest senior honor society at the University. In 1899, he accompanied E. H. Harriman on his famous exploration of the Alaska coastline, the Harriman Alaska Expedition. Following this, Fuertes would travel across much of the United States and to many countries in pursuit of birds, including the Bahamas, Jamaica, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and Ethiopia. Fuertes collaborated with Frank Chapman, Curator of the Museum of Natural History, on many assignments including field research, background dioramas at the museum, and book illustrations. While on a collecting expedition with Chapman in Mexico, Fuertes discovered a species of oriole. Chapman would name the bird after his friend, Iceterus fuertesi, commonly called Fuerte’s Oriole.[1] He lectured on ornithology at Cornell University from 1923, and the libraries there hold extensive collections of his artwork and personal papers. In 1926-27 Fuertes participated in the Chicago Field Museum/Daily News Abyssinian (Ethiopia) Expedition led by Wilfred Hudson Osgood. He would produce some of his most exquisite bird and mammal watercolors as a result of this trip. Tragically, he lost his life in an accident not long after returning to his home in Ithaca, New York. Fuertes would be a major influence on many wildlife artists to follow including George Miksch Sutton, who he mentored, Roger Tory Peterson, and Jorg Khun. In his lifetime Fuertes illustrated more than 60 books and contributed hundreds of works for magazine articles.[2] The following are some noted books published during and after his lifetime. In 1927, the Boy Scouts of America made Fuertes an Honorary Scout, a new category of Scout created that same year. This distinction was give to "American citizens whose achievements in outdoor activity, exploration and worthwhile adventure are of such an exceptional character as to capture the imagination of boys...". The other eighteen who were awarded this distinction were: Roy Chapman Andrews; Robert Bartlett; Frederick Russell Burnham; Richard E. Byrd; George Kruck Cherrie; James L. Clark; Merian C. Cooper; Lincoln Ellsworth; George Bird Grinnell; Charles A. Lindbergh; Donald Baxter MacMillan; Clifford H. Pope; George Palmer Putnam; Kermit Roosevelt; Carl Rungius; Stewart Edward White; Orville Wright. [3] Cardinal, from Citizen Bird (1897) Eastern Kingbird, from The Second Book of Birds (1901) Williamson's Sapsucker, from Birds of the Rockies (1902) Chestnut-backed Chickadee, from Harriman Alaska Series (1904) Pomarine Jaeger, from Harriman Alaska Series (1904) Yellow-throated Warbler, from Warblers of North America (1907) Great Horned Owl, from United States Department of Agriculture Yearbook (1908) Goshawk, from Birds of New York (1910-1914) Nightjars, from Birds of New York (1910-1914) Pileated Woodpecker, from Birds of New York (1910-1914) Magnolia Warbler, from The Warblers of North America (National Geographic, 1917) White-faced Ibis, from Game Birds of California (1918) Silvery-cheeked Hornbill, from Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (1930) Black-bellied Bustard, from Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (1930) African Fish Eagle, from Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals (1930)
The Breath of Life
- Author: Burroughs John
- Genre: Ecology
John Burroughs was a very prolific writer known as the author of more than thirty books and as the founder of a new genre in literature called the nature essay. Born in the Catskill Mountains, from his childhood he was carried away with the beauty of the nature and later depicted it in his novels. The Breath of Life is a bright example of such genre which teaches simple people to love and appreciate nature. Although it was published in 1915 but it does not seem to get old and would be equally interesting for modern readers.
Squirrels and other Fur-Bearers
- Author: Burroughs John
- Genre: History
John Burroughs (1837 - 1921) was an American naturalist important to the Conservation movement. He like Thoreau wrote essays on nature. Burroughs was the Grand Old Man of Nature when the American romance with nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. He grew up on a farm in New York and at age 17 became a teacher. Burroughs wrote over 30 books and published hundreds of essays. Burroughs's first marriage was not a success and he later met Clara Barrus a physician. She was the love of his life and after his death became his literary executrix. In Squirrels and Other Fur-Bearers Burroughs discusses chipmunks, woodchucks, rabbits, muskrats, skunks, foxes, weasels, mink, raccoons, porcupines, opossums, wild mice. And squirrels.
Bird Stories from Burroughs
- Author: Burroughs John
- Genre: Ecology
PUBLISHERS NOTE JOHN BURROUGHSS first book, Wake- Robin, contained a chapter entitled The In- vitation. It was an invitation to the study of birds. He has reiterated it, implicitly if not ex- plicitly, in most of the books he has published since then, and many of his readers have joyfully accepted it. Indeed, such an invitation from Mr. Burroughs is the best possible intro- duction to the birds of our Northeastern States, and it is likewise an introduction to some very good reading. To convey this invitation to a wider circle of young readers the most interest- ing bird stories in Mr. Burroughss books have been gathered into a single volume. A chapter is given to each species of bird, and the chapters are arranged in a sort of chronological order, according to the time of the birds arrival in the spring, the nesting time, or the season when for some other reason the is species particularly con- spicuous. In taking the stories out of their original setting a few slight verbal alterations have been necessary here and there, but these have been made either by Mr. Burroughs himself or with his approval. 501447 CONTENTS THE BLUEBIRD 1 THE BLUEBIRD poem . 13 THE ROBIN 15 THE FLICKER 21 THE PHOSBE 28 THE COMING OF PHEBE poem . . . . .31 THE COWBIRD 33 THE CHIPPING SPARROW 36 THE CHEWINK 39 THE BROWN THRASHER 42 THE HOUSE WREN 47 THE SONG SPARROW 53 THE CHIMNEY SWIFT 61 THE OVEN-BIRD 69 THE CATBIRD 72 THE BOBOLINK 77 THE BOBOLINK poem THE WOOD THRUSH 83 THE BALTIMORE ORIOLE 91 THE WHIP-POOR-WILL 95 THE BLACK-THROATED BLUE WARBLER A SEARCH FOR A RARE NEST . 82 100 vi CONTENTS THE MARSH HAWK A MARSH HAWKS NEST, A YOUXG HAWK, AND A VISIT TO A QUAIL ON HER NEST . . 106 THE WINTER WREN 119 THE CEDAR-BIRD 122 THE GOLDFINCH 125 THE HEN-HAWK 130 THE RUFFED GROUSE, OR PARTRIDGE 133 THE PARTRIDGE poem 137 THE CROW 138 THE CROW poem 144 THE NORTHERN SHRIKE 147 THE SCREECH OWL 151 THE CHICKADEE 157 THE DOWNY WOODPECKER 161 THE DOWNY WOODPECKER poem .... 169 INDEX . . 173 ILLUSTRATIONS GOLDFINCH in color, page 125 .... Frontispiece A PAIR OF BLUEBIRDS 8 FLICKER in color CHEWINK, MALE AND FEMALE in color .... 40 WOOD THRUSH 84 BALTIMORE ORIOLE, MALE AND FEMALE .... 92 WHIP-POOR-WILL 96 DOWNY WOODPECKER in color 22 162 BIRD STORIES FROM BURROUGHS THE BLUEBIRD IT is sure to be a bright March morning when you first hear the bluebirds note and it is as if the milder influences up above had found a voice and let a word fall upon your ear, so tender is it and so prophetic, a hope tinged with a regret. There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the and escort of the female at all gay champion times, and while she is sitting he feeds her reg- ularly. It is very pretty to watch them building their nest. The male is very active in hunting out a place and exploring the boxes and cavities, but seems to have no choice in the matter and is anxious only to please and encourage his mate, who has the practical turn and knows what will do and what will not. After she has suited her- self he applauds her immensely, and away the two go in quest of material for the nest, the male acting as guard and flying above and in advance --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Camping with President Roosevelt
- Author: Burroughs John
- Genre: Political
John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and essayist. He played an important role in the evolution of the U. S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs's special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world. " His most famous works include: Winter Sunshine (1875), Locusts and Wild Honey (1879), The Writings of John Burroughs (1895) and Far and Near (1904).
The Wit of a Duck and Other Papers
- Author: Burroughs John
- Genre: Contemporary
John Burroughs (1837-1921) was an American naturalist and essayist. He played an important role in the evolution of the U. S. conservation movement. According to biographers at the American Memory project at the Library of Congress, John Burroughs was the most important practitioner after Thoreau of that especially American literary genre, the nature essay. By the turn of the century he had become a virtual cultural institution in his own right: the Grand Old Man of Nature at a time when the American romance with the idea of nature, and the American conservation movement, had come fully into their own. His extraordinary popularity and popular visibility were sustained by a prolific stream of essay collections, beginning with Wake-Robin in 1871. In the words of his biographer Edward Renehan, Burroughs's special identity was less that of a scientific naturalist than that of "a literary naturalist with a duty to record his own unique perceptions of the natural world. " His most famous works include: Winter Sunshine (1875), Locusts and Wild Honey (1879), The Writings of John Burroughs (1895) and Far and Near (1904).
Under the Maples
- Author: Burroughs John
- Genre: History
1921. It was while sitting in his hay-barn study in the Catskills and looking out upon the maple woods of the old home farm, and under the maples at Riverby, that the most of these essays were written, during the last two years of the author's life. Contents: The Falling Leaves; The Pleasures of a Naturalist; The Flight of Birds; Bird Intimacies; A Midsummer Idyl; Near Views of Wild Life; With Roosevelt at Pine Knot; A Strenuous Holiday; Under Genial Skies; A Sheaf of Nature Notes; Ruminations; and New Gleanings in Field and Wood. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers
- Author: Burroughs John
- Genre: World
With An Introduction By Mary E. Burt And A Biographical Sketch --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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