For the Beauty of the Earth: Birding, Opera, and Other Journeys（实拍书影，国内现货）

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作者Thomas Urquhart

出版社Counterpoint

ISBN9781593760939

出版时间2006-02

装帧平装

页数320页

货号g2

上书时间2018-08-23

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商品描述: Today, when most personal memoirs involve misery and dysfunction, it is exhilarating to encounter a life of modesty, happiness, and immeasurable stability.
Often when we think of nature writers and naturalists, we think of the rough-hewn rural, rugged, outdoor type wrestled into epiphany by the arms of Mother Nature. Thomas Urquhart found a different path. He combined a classical education with a lifelong passion for opera, literature, and art. And from his earliest days he is a devoted, devotedly amateur naturalist.

In For the Beauty of the Earth Urquhart begins with the lives of his ancestors, among them his grandmother, "a patron saint of lost causes" who cherished her signed photo of Robert E. Lee, his great aunt Catharine, arrested along with Edna St. Vincent Millay and Marianne Moore while protesting what she considered the judicial murder of Sacco and Vanzetti. From the hills and fields of Englandboth old and newhe takes us to Italy for "birding through the Renaissance," then invites us to the wild landscape of Camargue in Provence, and the villages of Mali in West Africa. Through the years, birding provided Urquhart with opportunities for travel, a practical education, and a passionate place in the natural world.

Thomas Urquhart was the executive director of the Maine Audubon Society from 1988 to 2000. Educated in England and the United States, he lives with his wife, children's author Amy MacDonald and their children in Falmouth, Maine.

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