naturalists

Type: 
Topical Term
Subfield: 
a
Alias: 
naturalists

On the frontier with Mr. Audubon

1977
Audubon's young apprentice describes the experiences he shared with his master during their eighteen month trip down the Mississippi studying and drawing the birds they found along the way.

John James Audubon

1988
Presents that part of Audubon's life when he sailed down the Mississippi on a flatboat, along with his assistant Joseph Mason sketching birds along the way.

Carl Linnaeus

father of classification
1997
Profiles the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus whose scientific naming of plants and animals provided an international language of nature.

John Muir, man of the wild places

1991
A biography of the naturalist who was an early proponent of wilderness preservation and helped start the Sierra Club.

The tree of life

a book depicting the life of Charles Darwin, naturalist, geologist & thinker
2003
Presents the life of the famous nineteenth-century naturalist using text from Darwin's writings and detailed drawings by Sis.

The Beagle and Mr. Flycatcher

a story of Charles Darwin
1983
Relates how Charles Darwin began his career as an unpaid naturalist aboard the brig H.M.S. Beagle on a five-year voyage around South America, during which he began to formulate his revolutionary theory of evolution.

John James Audubon

artist of the wild
1993
Traces the life of John James Audubon from his early childhood in France to his career in America and his eventual success as an artist and naturalist.

Pages

Subscribe to RSS - naturalists